This very rare epiphyte has long been known as a 

 native of trees in different parts of the West Indies. The 

 elder Jacquin discovered it in the small island of Barn, off 

 the coast of Carthagena, filling the woods at night with its 

 fragrance ; Sloane observed it in Jamaica ; and lastly, the 

 plants from which this figure was taken were received from 

 Mexico by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., and by him presented 

 to the Horticultural Society in 1828. 



It requires a hot damp stove, where it grows freely 

 among moss and decayed vegetable matter. Its habits 

 are the same as those of Cattleya. 



Drawn in the Garden of the Horticultural Society last 

 October. 



At the time of publication of the second part of the 

 Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants, we had not seen 

 any specimen of this. We now improve its character from 

 the living plant. 



^ ' J. L. 



