8 SPATHOGLOTTIS. 



inches across, bright yellow with some lines of red spots on the lateral 

 sepals and at the base of the lip ; sepals and petals similar, oval- 

 oblong, acute ; lip thrce-lobed, the side lobes linear-oblong erect, the 

 intermediate lobe obcordate, emarginate, contracted below to a narrow 

 claw on which is a bi-lamellate callus. Column arched, broad at apex. 



Spathoglottis Lobbii, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 455 (1861). Id. in Gavd. 

 Chron. V. (1876), p. 534. The Garden, XXII. (1882), t. 351. 



A native of Labuan, in Borneo, where it grows in red sandy 



earth on the clitfs below the Civil Hospital Flat, its roots being 



protected by grass and other herbage, but otherwise exposed to a 



tropical sun.* It also occurs on the slopes of the mountains of 



Sarawak at 1,200 — 1,500 feet elevation. It was originally detected 



by the collector whose name it bears, but who failed to send living 



specimens to Europe ; it seems to have been first introduced by 



Messrs. Rollisson about the year 1875. 



S. Petri. 



Pseudo-bulbs sub-globose, 1|- inches in diameter. Leaves narrowly 



lanceolate, acuminate, 12 — 18 inches long. Scapes a little longer than 



the leaves, 9^ — -12 flowered. Flowers 1-^ inches in diameter, pale rosy 



lilac on purplish pedicels, at the base of which is a small ovate 



deciduous bract ; sepals ovate-oblong ; petals broader, sub-orbicular, apicu- 



late ; lip shorter than the other segments, distinctly three-lobed, the side 



lobes oblong, incurved, purple on the inner side ; front lobe transversly 



oblong, apiculate ; callus heart-shaped, yellow spotted with red. Column 



sub-clavate, bent, purplish lilac. 



Spathoglottis Petri, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. VIII. (1877), p. 392. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6354. 



Discovered by Mr. Peter Veitch in the Feejee Islands, in 187(3, and 



sent by him to our Chelsea nursery, where it flowered for the first 



time in the following year. The deciduous bracts are a marked 



characteristic of this species, as these organs are persistent in the 



other species even long after the ripening of the fruit. f 



S. Vieillardi. 



Pseudo-bulljs ovoid, 2|- inches long. Leaves large for the genus, 

 30 — 40 inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate and closely ribbed, 

 cuneate below, and passing into a short petiole, but sometimes sessile. 

 Scapes erect, 18 — 24 inches high, racemose above, many flowered, the 

 flowers expanding in succession from below upwards, five to ten being 



* F. W. B. in The Garden, XXII. (1882), p. 188. 

 + Bot. Mag. sub. t. 6354, 



