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narrower, somewhat falcate, and directed downwards ; the 

 petals are very narrow linear, also directed downwards, all 

 these parts being of a clear tawny yellow ; the lip is broad 

 and distinctly three-lobed, the lateral lobes semiovate, erect, 

 whitish with a margin of deep orange-red, and the middle lobe 

 is transversely oblong from a constricted base, somewhat 

 convex and emarginate with a toothed border, tawny yellow 

 irregularly blotched and spotted with orange-red ; the disk 

 bears three elevated ridges or crests which are marked by 

 several transverse orange-red lines. The sepals are repre- 

 sented as being green in the figure published in Xenia 

 Orchidacea. — Mouhnein. 



FlG.—Bot. Hag., t. 5072 ; Flore des Serves, t. 2302 ; Xenia Orch., ii. t. 

 134, fig. 1. 



Sin. — Ccelogyne Schiller iana. 



POLTCYCNIS, Beichenbach JjL 

 {Tribe Yandeae, sublribe Stanhopiese.) 



This is a small genus of epiphytes, the species of 

 which very much resemble those of Cycnoches in their 

 general appearance and the shape of their flowers. They 

 have short one-leaved pseudobulbous stems, with large 

 plicately-venose leaves, and showy flowers on scapes which 

 arise erect from base of the stems, and terminate in loose or 

 drooping racemes. The flowers have the sepals and petal 

 narrow and free, and the lip of peculiar form, biauriculate 

 at the base, the hypochil clawed with two large wings, the 

 epichil arcuately patent, and the column slender and curved, 

 dilated at the end around the minute stigmatic hollow. 

 There are some two or three South American species. 

 Cycnoches barbatum (p. 229), which is the handsomest of the 

 species, should have been included here. 



Culture. — These plants are best grown in baskets, with 

 peat and moss, and suspended from the roof. The Cattleya 

 house will suit them best. 



P. "barbata, Rchb. f. — See Cycnoches barbatum. 



