thriven better if it had been tied to a branch of such as the 

 Cork tree, and suspended from the rafter of the stove. 



" Pseudo-bulbs ovate oblong, of a pale yellowish green, 

 covered with large brown scales when young, tapering, com- 

 pressed, wrinkled and furrowed when old, about two inches 

 and a half long, and rather more than an inch and a half 

 broad, one-leaved. Leaves rigid, erect, slightly twisted and 

 keeled at the base, oblong lanceolate, oblique and emarginate 

 at the point, varying from three to five inches long, and 

 nearly an inch broad ; of a deep shining green. Scape two- 

 flowered, about eight or nine inches high, issuing from the 

 crown of the pseudo-bulb and embraced by the keeled part 

 of the leaf at its base, round and slender, nearly erect, of a 

 pale green, with five or six joints, having to each a persistent 

 brown coloured, sheathing, acuminate bract, an inch long. 

 Flowers of a very delicate semitransparent white, with a faint 

 lilac tinge, excepting the centre of the labellum which is 

 yellowish, and the inner part of the lateral lobes which is a 

 deep purplish red. Pedicels round and slightly channelled, 

 an inch and a half long, and of a pale green. Sepals spread- 

 ing, oblong lanceolate acute, an inch and a half long, and a 

 quarter of an inch broad, slightly recurved at the edges. 

 Petals the same length as the sepals, but twice as broad, with 

 the margin undulated and recurved. Labellum three-lobed, 

 the middle one similar in size and form to the petals, but 

 more undulated and contracted towards the base, where it is 

 slightly.tinged with yellow in the centre. The two lateral 

 lobes are scarcely half the length of the middle one, and from 

 being erect and arched with their edges meeting in a ridge 

 above the column, they form a kind of wide-mouthed tube, 

 the margin of which is recurved and undulated, and its inner 

 surface of a deep purplish red beautifully veined. Column 

 about two-thirds the length of the lateral lobes, rounded on 

 the upper side, hollowed below, and somewhat triangular, 

 nearly white, unless at the point which is a very pale pink. 

 Anther case almost spherical, two-celled, the hollow part of 

 the division between them deep pink on the outside. It seems 

 to be held in its position, or cup, by means of a small hooked 

 elongation of the upper ridge and the angular parts of the 

 column, from which it is easily displaced by touching, and 

 then displays the double series of pollen-masses arranged in 

 the two cells, four in each, ovate, compressed and pointed* 

 deep yellow." 



