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Society of South Kensino^ton in June last. It has also flowered at Knypersley, where 



flower-stems were much shorter than 



although the flowers themselves were larger, the 



those of Messrs. Veitch's specimen ; those in Eeichenbach's figure are twice the leno-th 

 of either. I have also observed considerable variations in the form of the lip and of 

 the sepals and petals, especially as regards the relative size of the two last. 



H. cerina grows slowly, but is easily managed in any house that suits the Triclio- 

 pilias^ many species of which are found in the same district with itself. Its flowers are 

 of very long duration. 



Desch. a bulbless epiphyte, producing tufts of four or five cuneate-oblong sharp- 

 pointed leaves, which are about a foot long. J^eduncles one-flowered, from two to six 

 inches long, coming up at the base of the leaves, very strong. Sepals and petals gene- 

 rally nearly equal, the latter more or less unguiculate, an inch and a half long, nearly 

 round, concave, fleshy, of a pale straw-colour. Lip yellow, unguiculate, puckered, 

 ovate, convex, retused, bearing at the foot of its disc a very thick semicircular ruflf", com- 

 posed of numerous plaits and folds. Column sometimes with a violet or brown blotch 

 near its base, clavate, but with no expansion or hood over the anther. 



Fig. 1. Lipj spread out flat. 2. Pollen-masses : — magnified 



