the pollen-masses sessile upon a crescent-shaped gland as in 

 Peristerias. 



The flowers of this plant are formed in a pendulous 

 raceme, as much as eighteen inches long ; the lower part 

 being clothed with distant short blunt scales, which extend 

 into bracts about half the length of the pedicels. Each 

 raceme consists of nine or ten flowers of a dull greenish 

 yellow, covered externally with short hairs ; their petals have 

 three streaks of violet ; their lip is downy all over the upper 

 surface, dark purple in the middle, with two or three spots of 

 the same colour near the point. In the centre of the lower 

 half is a large shaggy hump. 



Fig. 1, represents the column and petals ; 2, the labellum 

 spread open ; 3, pollen-apparatus. 



It may be grown in a wire basket like a Stanhopea, or 

 tied to a block of wood and suspended to a rafter, in a moist 

 stove. If potted in the usual way, the flower-spike will be 

 apt to go down into the soil and perish. Like many other 

 Orchidaceous plants it requires an ample supply of water 

 during the growing season, and shade in sunny weather, at a 

 temperature between 80° and 90'' by day, but not above 

 70° at night. Towards the end of October water should 

 almost be withheld for a few weeks, no more being given 

 than will prevent the pseudo-bulbs from shriveling. 



