S. Thomsoniana was sent to tlic Roval Gardens, Kew, 

 by Mr. W. Fawcett, B.Sc. F.L.S., Director of Public 

 Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica, in 1888. It 

 flowered at Kew for the first time in June, 1901, as did 

 another specimen simultaneously in Sir Trevor Lawrence's 

 collection. It is named in compliment to Mr. Robert 

 Thomson, formerly Conservator of Cinchona Plantations 

 in Jamaica. 



Descr. — Pseudohulhs two to three inches long, oblong 

 or ovoid, deeply grooved, bearing a few short, broad, 

 membranous sheaths. Leaves two and a half to three 

 inches long, elliptic, obtuse, pale green. Scape ten inches 

 long, with a few distant membranous white sheaths, 

 streaked with brown. Baceme or panicle four to twelve 

 inches long, loosely six- or more-flowered ; bracts short, 

 lanceolate, membranous ; pedicels one to one and a half 

 inches long, decurved, green. Floivers two and a half 

 inches broad. Sepals and petals linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 lemon-coloured, margins waved. Lip rather longer than 

 the sepals, lateral lobes shortly oblong, yellow within and 

 streaked with red ; terminal lobe broadly clawed, orbicular, 

 two-lobed, crisped and waved, bright rose-purple. Colnran 

 slightly incurved, margins entire, tip two-lobed. Anther 

 obscurely two-lobed. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, front, anrl 2, side view of column; 3 and 4, front and back view 

 of poUinia : — all enlarged. 



