by Professor Lindley on the South African species 
described at t. 5886 of this work as P. pubescens, Reichb. f. 
There is, however, no outstanding character by which 
Epiphora can be generically distinguished from Poly- 
stachya, and even if this had been the case there is the 
further difficulty that the present species is not very 
closely allied to P. pulvscens, but belongs to another 
section of that rather variable genus. The species is 
reported to have been in cultivation at Paris from the 
original specimens. The plant now figured was obtained 
for the Kew collection from Messrs. Sander and Sons, 
St. Albans, and flowered at Kew in October, 1913, 
Another example of P. Pobeguinii flowered at Glasnevin 
in November, 1917. The species is remarkable for its 
bright rose sepals and petals and for its strongly recurved 
lip which has a darker purple front lobe, and a prominent 
cushion-like, bright yellow crest on the disk. It thrives 
in a tropical Orchid House if planted in a mixture of 
peat fibre and sphagnum. It should be kept dry when 
not in active growth. 
Descrirtion.—Herb, epiphytic ; stems terete, strict, 4-6 in. long, thickened 
at the base into ovoid-globose pseudobulbs, clothed with short sheaths and 
bearing few leaves. Leaves 3-7, distichous, spreading or somewhat erect, 
lanceolate, rather acute, glabrous, 3-4 in. long, 1-1 in. wide. Scapes erect, 
about 8 in, long, clothed below with short sheaths ; racemes many-fiowered, 
rachis slightly puberulous; bracts spreading, ovate, acute, glabrous, concave, 
with finely denticulate margin; pedicels about tin. long. Flowers medium- 
sized, rose-coloured, the lip with a yellow crest. Sepals: posterior the lowest, 
ovate, concave, apiculate, 1 in, long ; lateral obliquely and broadly triangular- 
ovate, obtuse, } ir. long, 3 in. wide. Lip jointed at the foot of column, 
suddenly refracted, clawed, elongated and pandurately 3-lobed, 3 in. long, with 
a raised quadrate basal keel and sharply recurved in the middle; lateral lobes 
shortly rounded ; mid-lobe spathulate orbicular, obtuse, with margin recurved 
and concave in the middle ; isthmus with a pubescent pulvinate crest. Column 
broad, 5; in. long, not winged ; pollinia 4, spherical; stipe slender, cylindric ; 
gland scale-like, 
Tas. 8772.—Fig. 1, flower, seen from in front; 2, the same, seen from 
behind ; 8 and 4, lip; 5, column; 6, pollinarium :—all enlarged. 
