60 Mr. Lindley's Remarks upon the 



lanceolate, spreading, rising a little way up the stem, which is clothed 

 with long appressed sheathing squamae. Spike oblong, many-flowered. 

 Flowers ringent, longer than bracteae. Upper sepal oblong, suddenly 

 acute ; lower fleshy, and dilated at the end, with the upper margin 

 membranous. Labellum ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, cucullate, mem- 

 branous, scarcely lobed, crenated, wavy, the veins being unequally 

 furnished with small glandular ;excrescences ; middle /o6<? linear obtuse. 

 7. C. alaris ; sepalis patentibus : interioribus rhombeis antror- 

 sis intus varicosis ; exterioribus reflexis ; inferioribas oblongis 

 apice cucuUatis carnosis, labello sessili cucuUato : lobis latera- 

 libus venosis intermedioque carnoso rotundato glandulosis. 



Juxta Conception, Octobre floridam, invenit M*^Rae, (v. s. sp.) 

 Stem about a foot and a half in height. Leaves broad, short, ovate- 

 oblong, not rising up the stem, which is unusually stout, and clothed 

 with long and broad squamae. Spike nearly half the length of the 

 plant. Floicers distant, longer than the membranous bracteae. Sepals 

 much spreading; the outer reflexed; the upper lanceolate, veiny; 

 lower veiny, with a fleshy dilated cochleate apex ; inner, by a twist of 

 their unguis turned forward, and overlapping each other by their pos- 

 terior margins, rhomboid-lanceolate, slightly denticulate, painted as 

 it were with varicose anastomosing veins. Labellum three-lobed, 

 cucullate, unguiculate, the lateral lobes erect, membranous, crenated, 

 the middle one fleshy and densely crested. 

 8. C hletioides; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis, bracteis 

 membranaceis inflatis, sepalis oblongis retusis venosis : inferio- 

 ribus apice carnosis den talis, labello subsessili membranaceo 

 cordato, apice obsolete trilobo : lobis lateralibus membranaceis ; 

 intermedio carnoso dentato; cristse appendicibu spaucis lamelli- 

 formibus antice falcatis. 



Ad Cumbre, Andium claustrum, Novembre floridam, copiose invenit, McRae ; 

 circa Valparaiso raro, Februarii fine (v. s. sp.) 



Stem from a foot to a foot and a half in height. Leaves numerous, 

 spreading, three or four inches long, obtuse. Spike about six inches 

 long, and from six to eight flowered. Flowers very large, two-lipped, 

 enveloped in very broad, membranous, acuminate bracteae, which are 

 a little longer than the ovarium. Sepals all of an uniform figure, very 

 distinctly veiny, oblong, rounded at end ; the lower fleshy and toothed 

 at end. Labellum roundish oblong, slightly stalked, membranous, 

 strongly veined, three-lobed towards the end ; the lateral lobes membra- 

 nous, the middle one longer, rounded, fleshy and toothed towards the 

 middle ; crest consisting of a few large lamellae, tapering towards the 

 back, and falcate in front. 



This is by far the finest species, the flowers, including the 

 ovarium, measuring three inches in length. The specimens 



