(JRAMMATOPHYLLUM. 



iVc 



growth is finished give them a good season of rest, and keep dry till they 

 begin to grow. 



G. DELICIOSA, Bchb. f. — A rather pretty species, quite distinct in character 

 from any other Orchid. It has a tuberous root-stock, from which proceeds 

 an erect stem 11 foot in height, furnished with two lanceolate acuminate 

 nervose leaves about 9 inches long, tlie bases of which are enclosed with that of 

 the stem in a pair of 

 basal bracts ; at the top 

 of the stem is a raceme 

 of six or eight braoteated 

 flowers, whose pedicels 

 are dull red, the flowers 

 themselves being white, 

 with oblong - lanceolate 

 sepals and petals, and 

 an elliptic apiculato lip, 

 which is yellow at the 

 base, the front half white 

 covered with round pur- 

 ple dots. — Mexico. 



Fid.— Orchid Album, 

 >'. t. 210. 



G. SULPHUREA, 



lichl}. f. — A pretty ter- 

 restrial Orchid, with 

 onion-shaped bulbs, and 

 lanceolate acuminate 

 leaves about 2 inches in 

 breadth, with a dark 

 wine-coloured median rib; the flowers are large, and grow in many-flowered 

 racemes, the sepals being light sulphur-coloured, the petals white on the disk, 

 and sulphur on the margin, with numerous transverse broken purple lines, and 

 the cordate-oblong lip white with the base bi-plicate, and having some dark 

 brown spots at the apex. — Paraguay. 



GOVENIA DELICIOSA. 



GRAMMANGIS .— ScO GRAMJIAIOPHyLLUM. 



G-RAMMATOPHYLLUM, Blume. 



(JTrlhc Vandeae, mitriie Cymbidieae.) 



A small genus of somewhat large-growing plants, well worth a place 



in collections where there is accommodation for them. G. speciosum 



makes a magnificent specimen, having a noble appearance, but it 



requires considerable space to grow it to perfection. They are all stouts 



