and petals, and in being without a strongly crispate 
margin to the lip. The flowers are very fragrant. The 
purple veining on the lip is of a more decidedly magenta 
tint than it has been possible for the lithographer to 
reproduce. The locality Mexico is somewhat inferential, 
and is suggested owing to the circumstance that /. 
Candollei, Lindl., the plant for which this was mistaken 
when it was first introduced, is a Mexican species. 
Derscription.—llerb, epiphytic; pseudobulbs ovoid, 
somewhat narrowed upwards, channelled, 14-3 in. long, 
1-14 in. wide, 2-3-phyllous. Leaves ligulate, rather 
blunt, coriaceous, 7-14 in. long, 2-1 in. wide. Scapes 
terminal, 14-13 ft. long; panicle rather compact, many- 
flowered, with rather flexuous branches 4—6 in. long; 
bracts ovate, rather blunt, y's in. long; pedicels slender, 
about 2 in. long. lowers medium-sized but showy, 
about 1% in. across. Sepals and petals spreading, pale 
yellowish-green; sepals oblong-lanceolate, rather blunt, 
nearly 1 in. long; petals spathulate-lanceolate, rather 
blunt, nearly 1 in. long. Lip 3-lobed, 2 in. long, white, 
streaked with purple near the tip; lateral lobes oblong, 
blunt, enclosing the base of the column, recurved at the __ 
tip, finely crenulate; mid-lobe elliptic or suborbicular, 
blunt, finely crenulate, about | in. wide, nerves radiating, 
slightly raised and finely verrucose. Columns oblong, 1 in. 
ong. 
Fig. 1, a portion of the lip; 2, column; 3, pollen-masses; 4, sketch of an 
entire plant :—all enlarged except 4, which is much reduced. _ 
