with sheathing scales at the joints. Flowers very large and 
handsome. ‘The three outer segments of the orl are 
spreading, oval, the two lower ones united for their whole 
length at the back, and tapering down into a sharpish point, 
which embraces the lower part of the corolla, with its invo- 
lute margins. The color of the three outer segments is 
yellow brown, tinged more deeply at the extremity: the 
two inner ones are rather smaller than the outer, yellowish, 
all of them rather thick and fleshy. zp large, standing 
nearly erect, and parallel with the column, narrow at the 
base, and yellowish, broad upwards, cut into three large 
lobes, beautifully, marked with purple veins and pubescent; 
of these the two lateral lobes are incurved, the extreme one 
waved, recurved, and obscurely two-lobed. Within, the 
lip is wholly striated with red lines, except in the middle, 
where is a large orange-coloured gland, and hairy. Column 
long, adnate for nearly its whole length, and uniting to- 
gene the base of all the petals. Anther operculiform, 
-celled. Pollen Masses in two pairs, each pair consisting 
of a larger and a smaller one, attached to the extremity of 
a bifid, large, white, gland, having a duplicature at the 
base. Germen long, cylindrical, or a little thickened up- 
wards, scarcely striated. 
Mr. Linpiezy has rightly determined this plant to pao 
to the Genus Maximraria. As to the species, it varies Wi 
one or two flowers on the scape, and these flowers are cet- 
tainly among the largest of the Genus. They yield too, a 
faint scent resembling that of the Primrose. I had over- 
looked in my figure in Exotic Flora, the gland at the base 
of the pollen-masses, which, indeed, adheres so closely to 
the top of the column, that it is not easily separated. It 1s, 
however, remarkable for its great size. 
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Fig. 1. Lip. 2, Upper side of 2 - Under- 
side of ditto.—Magnified, ide of the Pollen-Masses and Gland. 3 
