the plant because if not replenished it disappears more 
rapidly than evaporation would account for. Lindley 
at a later date reduced his Govenia lagenophora to his 
G, utriculata, a West Indian species, first described by 
Swartz as Cymbidium utriculatum, but it is now known 
that the Mexican and the West Indian plants are very 
distinct and easily discriminated by the features men- 
tioned by Mr. Rolfe. The original specimen of G. layeno- 
phora does not seem to have been preserved, but the 
letter from Mr. Rogers, accompanied by a sketch, is in 
the Lindley herbarium, and at a still later date Professor 
Lindley identified dried specimens collected by Hartweg 
on the Monte de la Virgin as being identical with 
Mr. Rogers’ plant. Since then the species seems to 
have remained unknown until, in September. 1907, 
Mr. Juan Balme, of Hijo, Mexico, sent a sketch of an 
orchid, collected in the State of Vera Cruz, along with a 
living bulb. The latter produced flowers in the Kew 
collection in 1908, and at last enabled the confusion 
between G. lagenophora and G. utriculata to be settled. 
Mr. Balme’s plant has been grown in a warm house, and 
is given an abundant supply of water except when the 
leaves die down. Under this treatment it has flowered 
on several occasions since 1908; our drawing was pre- 
pared when it did so ce ie gore 1916. At the time 
of flowering the characteristic utricle does not appear to 
be fully developed. 
Desoription.—Herb, terrestrial. Pseudobulbs ovoid, 2-2} in. long, clothed 
with membranous sheaths. Leaves 2, stalked; blade elliptic or. elliptic- 
lanceolate, shortly acuminate, plicate, 8-12 in. long, 3-44 in. wide, narrowed to 
the base ; petiole dilated into a flask-shaped utricle, 6-8 in, long, about 1 in. 
wide, clothed outside with acute tubular sheaths. Scapes axillary, erect, 14- 
2 ft. long, racemes elongated, many-flowered, 6-10 in. long ; bracts lanceolate, 
acute, about } in. long; pedicels rather slender, 2-1 in. long, purple. Flowers 
medium-sized. Sepals ‘about } in. long or rather longer, yellow; posterior 
almost erect, elliptic-oblong, obtuse; lateral spreading, falcate-oblong, obtuse. 
Petals nearly erect, elliptic, obtuse, } in. long or rather shorter, reddish-brown. 
Lip erect at the base, recurved, wide-elliptic and obtuse at the apex, about 
5 in. long, yellow with a brown apical spot. Column incurved, angular, about 
$ in. long; wings very short, rounded ; pollinia 4, obovoid, somewhat com- 
pressed; stipe oblong; gland orbicular. 
Tas. 8794.—Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, column; 8, pollinarium ; 4, sketch of 
the entire plant :—all enlarged except 4, which is much reduced. 
