PAPHINIA GRANDIS. 
[Puate 145. ] | 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs clustered, small, ovate, angular, furrowed, about one and 
a half inch high, and of a shining green colour. Leaves short, eight to ten 
inches long, plaited, sub-membranaceous in texture, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, of a 
pale bright green, with one or two short scales at the tapered base. Pedwncles 
pendent, springing from the base of the pseudobulbs, about three-flowered ; bracts 
ovate pointed. lowers large, measuring seven inches each way, semi-expanded, with 
a lip of remarkable form; dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate acuminate, one and a_ half 
inch broad, the lower half of a creamy white, with irregular narrow transverse bands 
of chocolate-purple, the upper half wholly chocolate-purple, excepting a narrow border 
of creamy white; the lateral ones somewhat oblique, less fully and less regularly 
banded, but freely broken up into transverse patches, and margined with creamy 
white ; petals about the same size and form as the sepals, but more narrowed towards 
the base, marked similarly to the dorsal sepal, but with finer and narrower bands 
of chocolate-brown, set more concentrically, small at the base, larger upwards, the 
upper half wholly chocolate-purple, with creamy white edge; lip shorter than the 
sepals and petals, somewhat obovate in circumscription, with a blackish purple claw 
widening into an oblong-obovate cream-coloured disk, from which proceed a pair of 
bluntly-linear incurved side lobes half an inch long, and of a pale chocolate-brown ; 
then becoming much constricted, the middle or front lobe furnished with two 
prominent laterally spreading black-purple acute faleate recurved teeth, and terminating 
eyond these in a roundish knob covered with a bunch of long shaggy cream-coloured 
hairs. Column green, spotted with purple, the apex yellow, with a long prominent 
rostellum. 
PAPHINIA GRANDIS, Reichenbach fil. MS. 
This genus of Orchids has curiously formed flowers, and is altogether very 
distinct in aspect and character. There are but few species known in cultivation, and 
this Paphinia grandis, which we now figure, is the finest we have seen, the flowers 
being much larger than those of P. cristata, which we figured at Plate 34 of our 
first volume. Since then this rare and fine species has produced its blossoms in 
the collection of W. Williams, Esq., Sugnall, Lccleshall, Staffordshire. The plant 
was a well-grown one, and the flowers large and very peculiar, as will be seen by 
our representation—indeed, the flower, when received for our Artist to figure, was 
quite a surprise to us. | 
Paphinia grandis is similar in its manner of growth to P. cristata, but is of 
more vigorous habit. The pseudobulbs are green and shining, and the leaves light 
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