appears the scape, which is from four to six feet and more 
in length, as thick as a goose-quill below, upwards gradu- 
ally tapering, much branched and panicled, and bearing 
many handsome, bright-coloured, but not fragrant, rather 
large flowers. At the base of each ramification, and of each 
flower, is a membranous, sheathing, whitish, conspicuous 
bractea. Petals nearly equal, spreading horizontally, 
broadly lanceolate, acute, much waved, pale yellow, with 
large olive-brown blotches. Lip large, also spreading, 
about as long as the petals, panduriform, its lateral and 
lesser lobes situated at the base, rounded, and incurved 
towards the centre of the flower: the Lip is then contracted 
in its centre, and expands at the extremity into a large, 
reniform lobe, slightly crenate and deeply emarginate, often 
with a small point in the sinus. The crest occupies the base 
of the lip, is very prominent and papillose, the papille 
pointing downwards. The colour of the lip is a sulphur 
yellow, much deeper at the base, and having a broad, ches- 
nut-coloured band, crossing it transversely, but surrounding 
the crest, which is thus rendered the more conspicuous. 
Column yellow, short, two-lobed in front, and with a blunt 
tooth on each side of the stigma. Anther yellow. Pollen 
Masses yellow, fixed to a rather long stalk, and bearing a 
portion of the stigma at the base. 
It is probable that this species of Oncrprum, which was 
introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1793, by Rear 
Admiral Brien, was shortly after lost ; otherwise so beautiful 
a plant would soon have become general in our collections, 
and would have found a place in some or other of the 
numerous Botanical journals. It is a native of the West 
India islands. Our plants, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
were communicated by the Rey. Lanspown Gurip1ne, from 
St. Vincents, and have been easily cultivated in a house 
almost filled with tropical Orchidee, among which, the 
flowers of this were of the longest duration, and not the 
least attractive in point of beauty. Some of the scapes 
were nearly seven feet long. 
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* Fig. 1. Lip and Column. 2. Under side, and 3, upper side of a Pollen 
Mass.—Magnified. : 
At Tas. 2956, for Neorrra? grandiflora, read Unantua (from eos, C7 isped, 
and aubos, a flower,) grandiflora; and add for Generic Character, Pet. pate®- 
tia, superiore oblongo, planiusculo, reliquis obovatis, sinuato-crispatis, duobus 
lateralibus papillosis, basi attenuatis. Labellum lato-oblongum, papillosum, 
crispatum, disco lamellatum. Columna aptera. Masse pollinis 4, lineares, 
curyate subfarinacee. 
