summit, which are said by Swartz to be adnate with the 

 bulb, four to five inches long, coriaceous, rigid, obtuse or 

 emarginate at the point, channelled in the middle on the 

 upper side, somewhat keeled below, nerveless. From the 

 base of the leaves, within, rises a rounded, unbranched, 

 purplish-green scape, a foot or more high, jointed at inter- 

 vals, and having a small, appressed scale at each joint. 

 Raceme terminal, lax, few- (seven to eight) flowered. Pedi- 

 cels curved upwards, scarcely two inches long, (including 

 the adnate spur,) bright red, each with a small bractea 

 at the base. Perianth (except at the base of the labellum) 

 of a fine rich crimson, inner segments a little paler, and 

 more delicate in structure. The three outer segments are 

 lanceolato-acuminate, carinated; the two inner and lateral 

 ones obovato-cuneate, somewhat waved, veiny ; Labellum 

 scarcely longer than the rest of the segments, broadly 

 obovate, waved and somewhat crenate at the margin, very 

 veiny, and with deep red lines upon an orange-coloured 

 ground at the scarcely unguiculated base, where it is 

 decurrent, running down into a long spur, which is adnate 

 with the slender germen. Column rather short, semicylin- 

 drical. Stigma transverse, very viscid. Anther white, 

 hemispherical, with four parallel cells, and four oval, com- 

 pressed, white pollen-masses, each with a filament, which 

 lies upon the edge of the mass. 



Browne, in his Natural History of Jamaica, says that 

 this is cc one of the most beautiful species of this tribe of 

 plants ;" and it is certain that there are few that can excel 

 it in richness of colour. It grows in its native island not 

 far from the shore upon the old trunks of Bombax, Rhizo- 

 phora, Conocarpus, &c, along with the Cvmbidium nodo- 

 sum. (Swartz. J It was introduced to Kew, in 1793, but 

 is, probably, yet rare in collections. A specimen has been 

 obligingly communicated to me by Charles Horsfall, 

 Esq. of Everton, near Liverpool, raised from bulbs sent by 

 Mr. Wiles, from Jamaica; and accompanied by an excel- 

 lent drawing from the pencil of iMrs. Horsfall. 



Fig. 1. Column and part of the Perianth. 2. Inner view of an Anther- 

 case. 3. and 4. Pollen-Masses:— more or less magnified. 



