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white flowers. Except in colour, the scape and bracts bear a strong resemblance 
to the same organs in Spathoglottis aurea. The flowers are fleshy, the sepals espe- 
cially so, with broad spreading segments which form a nearly complete circle. 
The back of the sepals is strongly stained with rosy-red across the middle and 
near the base, the rest being paler and the tips nearly white. The front of the 
sepals is white, with a shade of blush near the base. The petals are nearly pure 
white. The broad three-lobed lip is quite delicately articulated to the short foot 
of the column by a slender strap, and moves up and down with the slightest 
touch. Its ground colour is white with the disc of the front lobe bright yellow, 
on which part are several short bristle-like processes, directed forward. The crest 
is somewhat peculiar in structure. Near the base of the lip is a rather large erect 
fleshy callus, deep orange in colour, semicircular in shape and slightly crenulate 
in front, and from this extend a pair of slightly diverging white erect keels, 
each terminating in a free tooth tipped with orange. The extreme base of the lip 
is orange-yellow, but there is not the slightest trace of either spur or sac. The 
column is pure white, except the broad foot which is a little over a line long, and 
has a deep orange W-shaped marking on its face. The anther-case has a deep 
brownish-crimson crest, much like that of Galeandra; the stipes of the pollinia 
is flat, rather shorter than the pollinia themselves, and the small gland oblong. 
The lateral sepals are adnate to the short foot of the column. 
The sum total of these characters seems to place the plant in the subtribe 
Cyrtopodieae, where it may perhaps be placed next to Govenia. The habit and 
crested anther suggest Eulophieae, yet the foot of the column and the absence 
of either spur or sac to the lip are sufficient to exclude it. The crest of the lip 
and one or two other characters suggest an affinity with Zygopetalum and 
Aganisia, yet these are epiphytic, while the present plant appears to be terres- 
trial. The plant is certainly somewhat anomalous in structure, but I think for the 
present it may be placed next to Govenia, which is terrestrial and has an 
articulated lip, though in many other respects the two are very different. 
The generic name serves both to indicate the resemblance to Eulophia, 
and also the presence of the crest. The species is by request dedicated to 
Queen Elisabeth of Roumania, well known in literary circles under her adopted 
title of “ Carmen Sylva. ” 
The habitat of this distinct and remarkable plant is for obvious reasons 
not at present divulged, though it will doubtless be forthcoming at some sub- 
sequent period. It may however be indicated that it should be placed in the 
warm house and will doubtless succeed under the treatment accorded to Phaius, 
Eulophia and Cyrtopodium. 
R. A. Rovre. 
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