manner in which their flowers shrink, when they have 
been prepared differently, that their recognition is at 
times hardly possible. One result of this has been that 
the Peruvian (. tingens has been actually recorded from 
Caracas, a statement that is at least doubtful, because 
there is a species from Caracas, described by Lindley as 
G. fasciata, »which is clearly distinct from G. tingens. 
The chief difficulty connected with G. tingens lies in our 
imperfect knowledge of the original plant. The specimen 
figured was taken from a plant purchased for Kew in 
1912 at a sale held by Messrs. Prothero and Morris, the 
floral details of which agree well with the original figure. 
The plant is grown in a tropical house along with species 
of Calanthe, and flowers in early spring. Itis most readily 
comparable with G. Gardneri, Hook., figured at t. 3660 
of this work. 
Descriprioy.—Herb, terrestrial. Stem erect, short, 2-foliate. Leaves 
sessile, recurved, elliptic-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, plicate, 
almost membranous, 8-12 in. long, 23-8 in. wide. Scapes erect, 8-12 in. high, 
each with a membranous sheath near the middle; racemes many-flowered, 
46 in. long; bracts lanceolate, acute, 374 in. long; pedicels rather slender, 
s+ in. long. Flowers medium-sized, whitish, the petals finely rose-punctate, 
the lip greenish-yellow. Sepals: posterior incurved, oblong, obtuse, concave, 
about 2 in. long; lateral falcate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 1-1 in. long. Petals 
somewhat faleate-oblong, obtuse, 47% in. long. Lip somewhat pandurately 
oblong, apiculate, 1-1 in, long; disk 8-keeled. Column incurved, oblong, 
widely winged, about + in. long ; pollinia subglobose ; gland small. 
Tas. 8768,—Fig. 1, flower, 
4, anther-cap ; 5, pollinia ; 
which is much reduced, 
with sepals and petals removed; 2, lip; 8, column ; 
6, sketch of the entire plant :—all enlarged except 6, 
