mity remarkably plaited at the margin, while its surface is 
studded with many roundish or linear white papille, tipped 
with green. The Labellum is scarcely so long as these, 
reflexed, broadly oblong, the sides curved upwards, waved 
and plaited, especially at the extremity, where the surface 
is papillose as in the petals just described ; at the base it is 
suddenly contracted into a short, white claw, having an 
orange spot at the base, and the inner surface for more than 
half the length is, in the middle, furnished with about six, 
vertical, green plates or lamella, of which the extremities 
are free, sharp, and curved a little upwards. Germen an- 
gular, thickened upwards. Column linear, oblong, decury- 
ed, semicylindraceous, within orange-coloured, marked with 
two depressed longitudinal lines, the base dilated, deep — 
red, and marked with a tooth on each side: upwards in 
front is the subquadrate, depressed, green, stigma, termi- 
nated by a short bifid lip: the back of the column is green, 
and within the summit of it, which forms an imperfect upper 
lip, is situated the ovato-acuminate, green anther -case. 
Cells two, yellow, opening with a longitudinal fissure, 
and containing each two linear-acuminate, curved Pollen- 
Masses, yellow, and farinaceous indeed on the outside, but 
within, evidently formed of elastically cohering granules. 
The Orchideous plants, formerly scarcely known in a 
state of cultivation, may now rank with the most numerous, 
and certainly the most curious and beautiful, of any tribes 
which adorn our stoves ; arid among those not parasitic, 
whose roots are imbedded in the ground, may assuredly be 
reckoned the kind now before us, which was sent to our 
Glasgow Garden by the Rev. Lanspown Guitpine, and 
blossomed in the stove of the spring of 1829. The upper- 
most flower scarcely came to perfection, and I have reason 
to believe, that another year will witness the plant in a 
greater state of beanty and magnitude than it exhibited 
this year. With regard to the Genus, it agrees with the 
essential character of Neorrta, as it is at present defined 
by Mr. Brown; but the habit of the plant and the par- 
ticular structure of its floral coverings are so much at 
variance with what we know of the rest of the N EOTTIE, 
that it will probably constitute a distinct Genus. 
Fig. 1. Labellum, nat. size, 2. Back view of the summit of the Column. 
3. Front view of the entire Column. 4. Anther- ye 
MasSes. 7. Papille.—Muagnified. pra ee Se Pelle 
