beneath, the base nearly amplexicaul, but not sheathing. 
Scape arising from the side of the stem among the leaves, 
but not from the axils, three feet high in the present indi- 
vidual, terete, wavy, orange-coloured, glabrous, reddish 
above, and bearing a many - flowered, splendid panicle. 
Below, and at the base of the ramifications, is a yellow, 
roundish acute, appressed scale or bractea. Flowers large. 
Petals spreading horizontally, unequal, the three lower 
ones (in regard to the axis of the flowers,) linear -spathu- 
late, obtuse, scarcely waved, rather dingy orange, with 
bright red stains on the upper side, about an inch and a 
half long; two upper ones much larger, broadly lanceo- 
late, singularly crisped and waved at the margin, obtuse, 
contracted at the base so as to be clawed, the claws a little 
incurved laterally, thus bringing the petals nearly parallel 
with each other ; the colour is a rich, rather velvety, deep 
crimson, sometimes obscurely and transversely banded with 
paler lines; beneath uniformly orange in the centre, redder 
at the margin. Lip very small, sessile, jointed upon the 
base of the column, pale yellow beneath, with a conical, 
crimson, saccate spur at some little distance from the 
base, three-lobed, the two lateral lobes erect, rounded, mar- 
gined and streaked with red, and having two pale-yellow 
tubercles in the centre; middle lobe ovate, acuminate, re- 
flexed, deep purple-red, pale yellow at the base. Column 
of the same colour, except within, where it is pale yellow 
with purple streaks, semicylindrical, the sides a little in- 
flexed above, but not winged. Anther operculiform, sub- 
hemispherical, purple, with a pale yellow line on the top ; 
within imperfectly two-celled. Pollen Masses two, sub- 
globose, wavy, yellow, each with a small lobe at the back, 
and fixed to the top of a thin, broad stalk or membrane, 
which has the margins above inflexed, and is fixed at the 
base upon a large, yellowish gland, which laps over the 
top of the convex, transverse stigma. Germen an inch, 
or an inch and a half long, not twisted, resembling a pedi- 
er orange red. 
or the opportunity of giving a figure of this singular 
and beautiful orchids mlgit I So indebted io Mr: 
Coorer, the able director of the gardens of the Right Hon. 
Lord Mixon, at Wentworth House, who sent me the noble 
specimen here represented, in the latter end of March, 
1830. From the great care that was employed in the 
packing, the flowers were in as entire perfection, as if the 
plant had been still growing in the stove, not a petal being 
injure 
