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quis. Labellum sellseforme, cum columna paiallelum, 

 eaeque basi saccato adnatum, medio villosum basi biden- 

 tatum ; saccus inappendiculatus. Columna brevis, truncata, 

 semicylindracea. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, globosa, 

 dorso excavata; caudicuHs 2, linearibus, divergentibus, glaii- 

 dulce ovatae alligatis — Ilcrba epipliyta, caulesce?is ; foliis 

 distichis coriaceis ; pedtmcnlis midtijioris^ latcralihus, 

 erectis. 



Native country, Java. 



This remarkable and very handsome plant has long been 

 known to me in a dried state, as a Java species, found in that 

 island by Mr. Veitcli's collector Lobb, and bearing a near rela- 

 tion to the epiphytes called Trichoglottis by Dr. Blume. AJive 

 I have had the pleasure of receiving it in great beauty from 

 Chatsworth, where it has flowered in the course of the summer. 

 Mr. Paxton bought it at a sale of new Orchids as "an unknown 

 plant from Malacca." 



It has the habit of a Vanda or Angrcecum, with long chan- 

 nelled three-ribbed leaves, of rather tough texture, terminating 

 in an acute nearly oblique point. The flower-spike rises from 

 the side of the stem erect, to nearly a foot in height ; it is deep 

 purple, and bears from 9 to 12 flowers, each about an inch and 

 a half in diameter; externally they are briglitly spotted with 

 crimson on a pale yellow ground ; inside tlie spots only just 

 show through. The sepals and petals are spreading, narrowly 

 oblong, blunt, very nearly alike in size, form, and texture, except 

 that the 2 lateral sepals arfe slightly oblique at the base. The lip 

 is oblong, saddleshaped, blunt, and coarsely woolly at the upper 

 end, shaggy along the middle ; at the sides it is smooth, and 

 streaked with crimson ; at the base it is flattened and downy, 

 united by the edges to the column, so as to form a small sac, but 

 destitute of any appendage within the sac, except a small rounded 

 callosity ; above the sac, on either side, it has an obtuse linear 

 smooth tooth. The column is a short stift' truncated body, deep 

 yellow at the end, rounded at back, and plain in front, where it 

 is moreover hollowed out near the base, and closely covered 

 with a soft felt. The stigma is a small transverse oval space 

 near the summit of the column. The anther is whitish, placed 

 obliquely in rear of the stigma, with an ovate point, and 

 2-celled. The pollen masses are 2, globular, partially 2-lobed, 

 each attached to a long narrow diverging caudicle, holding fast 

 to a common ovate gland. 



This plant is evidently very near the genus Trichoglottis, which 



