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emarkable Angroeciim which in the length of its tails might vie with the well-known 



J. caudatum. 



Desck. a terrestrial pseudobulbous plant, producing a tuft of several leaves, which 

 are plicated, very sharp-pointed, and from two to three feet long by four to six inches 

 broad. Scajpe radical, twice the length of the leaves, upright, bearing at its extremity 

 a dense, many-flowered truss of large and beautiful flowers. Bracts long and pointed, 

 fltting tightly round the scape. Sepals greenish on the outside, but of a purplish-brown 

 internally, an inch long, lanceolate-acuminate, waved at the edges, bent backwards. 

 Fetals much wider than the sepals, spreading, obtuse, almost square, half the length of 

 the ovary, white, sufl'used with rose. Lip nearly free, funnel-shaped at the base, 

 slightly three-lobed; the lateral lobes very large, standing erect, convex, rounded, 

 green, streaked with rich purplish-crimson. Epichil^ or centre-lobe of lip, ovate, blunt, 

 of a (h^ep puce colour, with three whitish elevated ridges on its disk, and which run 

 down to base of lip. Column short, half-round, with membranous edges. Anthers sur- 

 mounted by a crest composed of two short diverging teeth. 



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Fig. L RccIuceJ view of the entire plant. 2. Front view of the lip. 3. Column. 4. Pollen- 

 masses: — all diglithj maguijlccL 



