recollect, from Peru. On the other hand, according to 

 Miss Woolward, M. fulvescens was imported from New 

 Grenada in 1890 by Messrs. Horsman & Co. of Colchester, 

 and has become very popular. The specimen figured was 

 presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. F. W. Moore, 

 A.L.S., Keeper of the Royal Gardens, Glasnevin, in 1893. 

 It flowers annually in a cool house. The flowers vary a 

 good deal in colour. 



Descr. — Stems tufted. Leaf five to six inches long, 

 thickly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, minutely three- 

 toothed at the tip, base narrowed into a short petiole ; 

 scape rather longer than the leaf, emerging from the 

 short, cylindric, membranous sheath at the base of the 

 leaf, slender, terete, one-flowered. Flotcers nodding. 

 Perianth tube about half an inch long. Sepals abruptly 

 contracted into a slender, recurved, bright yellow tail; 

 dorsal half an inch long, oblong, arched ; lateral twice as 

 long, ovate, connate, strongly recurved, thickly three- 

 nerved, dimidiately white and red, buUate, and with a white 

 streak on the red portion. Petals oblong-spathulate, 

 fleshy, obtuse, rather longer than the column. LijJ 

 oblong, rather longer than the petals, base hastate. — 

 J,D.H. 



Fig. 1, flower with the sepals removed; 2, lip and column; 3, anthers; 

 4, poUinia -.—all enlarged. 



