with striated, membranous, whitish-green sheaths, spotted 
with brown, each terminated by a single, thick, fleshy, rigid, 
subulate deaf, semiterete at the back, furrowed in front, ofa 
very dark green colour. At the base of this leaf, and from 
a sheathing scale, appears the pedunculated raceme, shorter 
than the leaf, of about from ten to twelve moderate sized 
flowers, fragant at night. Sepals patent, yellowish-green, 
linear-acuminate, rather longer than the labellum ; petals 
smaller and uarrower, but of the same colour. Labellum 
from a cylindrical, involute, greenish base, suddenly ex- 
panding into a whitish cordato-ovate, acuminated, carinated 
extremity, the margins often reflexed. Column short, con- 
cealed within the involute base of the labellum, cylindrical, 
white, with three lanceolate, erect teeth at the extremity, of 
which two are lateral or almost in front, and entire, the third 
. dorsal, bi- trifid at the extremity. Anther terminal, almost= 
concealed by the teeth, hemispherical, with eight cells and — 
pollen-masses, four smaller attached to the anterior extre- 
mity of as many caudicula, and four larger, affixed to the 
ppposite extremity; some lesser globules are likewise at- 
tached to the sides of the caudicula. ) 
- From the stove of Cuartes Horsraun, Esq. Mayor Dh om 
Liverpool, who received it from Wriiam Parke, Esq. of 
Kingston, Jamaica, in 1830, and obligingly accompanied it 
RY the excellent drawing here engraved, from the pencil of 
rs. Horsratt. The plant had remained dormant, without 
showing any signs of vegetation for about six months after 
its arrival in this country, and then put forth one shoot, 
which attained its full growth in the course of two months, 
when the individual again became dormant for about the — 
same period as before. In January 1832, it produced its 
blossoms, which the gardener, Mr. Henry Evans, observed 
to be fragrant at night. 
_ ‘This species is assuredly the same as the plant above 
referred to in Stoane, whose figure, indeed, is far more 
characteristic than that of Jacquin. 
a 
Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Back view of a Column. 8. Front view of ditto. 
4. Anther with its Pollen Masses. 5, Anther Case. 6. Pollen Mass.— 
Magnified. ae 
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