vet flowered, thrives well under the treatment suitable for 
Lycaste Skinneri, Lindl, an orchid which is figured at 
t. 4445 of this work. 
Descriprion.— Herb; pseudobulbs close set, ovoid-oblong, 
furrowed, 2-24 in. long, about 7 in. thick, unifoliate. Leaves 
shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acute, slightly plicate, 
recurved, about 12 in. long, 14 in. wide. Scape erect, 
10-12 in. long, 2—3-flowered, clothed with lanceolate acute 
sheaths; bracts lanceolate, shortly acuminate, black dotted, 
about 8 lin. long; pedicels 141-13 in. long. Flowers large, 
pale yellow, inverted. Sepals somewhat spreading, very 
concave, apiculate, about 1} in. long, the posterior wide 
elliptic, the lateral pair wide ovate. Petals nearly orbicular, 
somewhat concave, about 14 in. long. Lip deeply 3-lobed ; 
lateral lobes widely falcate-oblong, obtuse or rounded and 
slightly recurved at the tip, 8 lin. long, transversely keeled 
in the middle and prolonged in front in an obtuse tooth; 
mesochile oblong, truncate, 5 lin. long, fleshy; epichile 
obovate-oblong, 8 lin. long, with denticulate tip and cuneate 
base, nearly membranous, Column clavate, curved, about 
9 lin. long; pollinia 2, ovoid, waxy ; stalk linear-oblong ; 
gland suborbicular. 
Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, column seen from in front; 8, pollinia:—all 
enlarged. 
