described by Lindley from the inflorescence only, and 
which has recently reappeared in cultivation. The 
nearest ally of the plant now described is MZ. maximum, 
Lindl., a species figured at t. 5936 of this work under the 
name MM. marmoratum, Lindl. The present species is 
readily distinguished from M. maximum by its considerably 
larger size and its very hairy brown flowers. Mr. Moore 
informs us that the plant from which our material was 
derived was obtained from Messrs. Sander and Sons in 1905 ; 
it thrives vigorously in an intermediate house, with a 
minimum night temperature of 55° F.; it requires light, 
and has to be grown close to the glass. The strong stiff 
_ rhizome does not bend readily ; it is therefore advisable to 
grow the plant in fairly shallow pans rather than pots. 
A few chopped oak-leaves added to the compost appear to 
encourage growth. 
Descriprion.—Herb, epiphytic, rhizome stout, woody ; 
pseudobulbs elliptic-oblong, somewhat flattened, 24-3 in. 
long, 1-14 in. wide, 2-foliate, the base clothed with 
membranous striate ovate conduplicate sheaths. Leaves 
subsessile, oblong or elliptic-oblong, rather obtuse, 
coriaceous, 8-12 in. long, 13-2 in. wide, finely dark- 
punctate beneath. Scapes lateral, stout, suberect, 12-14 
in. long, clothed at the base with numerous ochreate 
sheaths; rachis broad, flattened, undulate and slightly 
spirally twisted, freely dotted with purple spots and 
scabridly puberulous, 6-8 in. long, 14-14 in. wide, many- 
flowered; bracts ovate or ovate-oblong, apiculate or 
acuminate, recurved at the tips, their bases transversely 
decurrent on both sides, 4—5 lin. long; pedicels about 2 lin. 
long. Flowers brown, scabridly velvety outside; posterior 
sepal ovate-oblong, subacute, concave, incurved with a 
reflexed tip, about 4 lin. long; lateral sepals oblique, 
triangular-ovate, acuminate, with their tips falcate, about 
4 lin. long. Petals linear-falcate, acuminate, 23-3 lin. 
long; lip orbicular-ovate, recurved, obtuse, flattened, 2 lin. 
long. Column broad, 2 lin. long; teeth distinct, 2-fid at 
the tip. Capsule oblong, about | in. long. 
_ Fig. 1, a flower; 2, the same, sepals removed; 3, anther-cap; 4, pollinia :— 
all enlarged. 
