so different from that of Mavillaria that he placed his 
genus /sabelia, with good reason, in the tribe Epidendreae, 
between Lindley’s two genera Leptotes and Sophronitis. 
In the figure of J. virginalis supplied by Rodriguez, 
which serves as the frontispiece to his volume, the 
remarkable fibrous sheaths which clothe the pseudobulbs 
are shown as being more developed than they are in 
the cultivated plant here depicted. For the introduc- 
tion of this plant to cultivation, orchid-growers are 
indebted to Mr. K. Grossman, who sent living plants to 
the Botanic Garden at Berlin in 1904. The example 
now figured was received at Kew from the Director of 
the Berlin Botanic Garden in 1908, and has thriven well 
in an intermediate temperature attached to a block of 
tree-fern stem. © Under cultivation it flowers very 
Sparingly, the last occasion being December, 1917, when 
our drawing was prepared. It is by no means con- 
spicuous, even when in flower, for the solitary individual 
blossoms are small, and are borne on extremely short 
peduncles ; they are whitish with a light flush of rose or 
pale purple in the sepals. The flowers are, however, 
extremely interesting on account of their remarkable 
structure. 
Description.—Herb, epiphytic, small, with a creeping cylindric rootstock. 
Pseudobulbs 1-foliate, close-set, ovoid-globose, 3-3 in. long, clothed with 
Scarious sheaths which at length become fibrous-laciniate. Leaves nearly 
cylindric, rather blunt, curved or flexuous, 13-6 in. long, very narrow. Scapes 
short, slender, 1-1 in. long, 1-flowered ; bracts spathaceous, blunt, very short; . 
pedicels short. Flowers small, spreading, flushed with rose or pale purple. 
Sepals : posterior suberect, ovate-oblong, blunt, somewhat concave, 1-1 in, long ; 
lateral somewhat spreading, ovate-oblong, blunt, } in. long, shortly connate at 
the base and produced into a short mentum. Petals somewhat spreading, narrow- 
oblong, blunt, 3-1 in. long, somewhat narrowed at the base. Lip towards the 
base very concave and more or less erect, higher up recurved and spreading, 
obovate, somewhat convex, 4-4 in. wide; disk somewhat thickened. Column 
nearly erect, broad, ;!;-} in. long, without wings ; pollinia 8 (4 in each locule), 
elliptic - oblong, somewhat compressed; caudicles almost filiform, curved, 
connate at their tips. 
Tas. 8787.—Fig. 1, portion of rhizome with pseudobulbs clothed with their 
laciniate-fimbriate sheaths ; 2, apex of a leaf; 3, flower, seen from one side ; 
4, the same, seen from in front; 5, lip and column, seen from one side ; 
6, anther-cap ; 7, pollinia, showing the filiform caudicles :—all enlarged. 
