SPATHOGLOTTIS. 7 



similar and equal to them, bright canary -yellow on both sides ; lip 



shorter and smaller than the other segments, three-lobed, the side lobes 



oblong, roundish and dilated at the apex, incurved, bright yellow 



densely spotted with red on the basal half ; front lobe fleshy, linear 



spathulate, obtuse, with two broad subulate auricles at the base, bright 



yellow spotted with red. Crest bi-lamellate, the lamellae divergent. 



Spathoglottis aurea, Liudl. in Jour, of Hort. Soc. Lond. 1850, p. 84. Rchb. in 

 Gard. Chron. IV. s. 3 (1888), p. 92, icon, xyl. S. Kimballiana, Hort. Sander. 



Introduced by us in 1849 from Mount Ophir in Malacca, where 

 it was detected by Thomas Lobb growing near Nepenthes sanguinea 

 and Rhododendron jasmiyiiflorum. Only a very few plants reached 

 England alive, and these gradually died out after flowering one or 

 two seasons. Notbing more was seen or beard of it in a living 

 state till 1886, when it was sold at Stevens' Rooms by its importers, 

 Messrs. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, wbo bad received it from 

 tbeir collector Forstermann. 



Spathoglottis aurea is a plant of considerable interest both to botanists 

 and to horticulturists ; its large spoon-like cauline bracts are peculiar 

 to it and strongly mark its specific character, while its flowers are 

 the largest and most handsomely coloured in the genus. 



S. Fortune!. 



Leaves form a tuberous rhizome, usually in pairs, linear-lanceolate, 

 9 — 15 inches long. Scapes shorter than the leaves, slender, pidjescent, 

 bearing a terminal 5 — 9 flowered lax raceme. Flowers yellow with 

 the side lobes of the lip streaked and spotted with red ; sepals oval- 

 oblong ; petals broader, oval ; lateral lobes of lip oblong, erect ; middle 

 lobe obcordate, emarginate ; crest consisting of two divergent fleshy lobes, 

 and a central raised line reaching nearly to the apex of the lip. 

 Column winged, triquetral above, concave below. 



Spathoglottis Fortunei, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 19. Benth. Fl. Hongkong, 

 p. 355. Pachystoma Fortune!, Rchb. Walp. Ann, YI. p. 464 (1861). 



First sent by Fortune in 1844 from Hongkong to the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London, in whose garden at Chiswick it flowered 

 in January in the following year. It is abundant in the island, 

 and it has been also gathered in China on the mountains adjacent 

 to the coast opposite Hongkong. 



S. Lobbii. 



Pseudo-bulbs of irregular form, compressed. Leaves broadly lanceolate, 

 acute, 7 — 10 nerved. Scapes slender, 18 — 24 inches high, pale green 

 and pubescent below, i>urplis]i above, 4—6 flowered. Flowers 1-^ — 2 



