GRAMMATOPHYLLUM. 415 



angular, a foot or more in length, and bear several distich.ous broadly lorate 

 arching leaves, 1^- to 2 feet long ; the flowers form a recurved raceme, and are 

 tawny yellow, closely marked by transverse lines of reddish-brown on the lower 

 part, and having a blotch of the same colour near the acuminate infl.exed tip, which 

 is dull yellow, the dorsal sepal fornicate, and the two lateral ones saccato-gibbose 

 at the base ; the petals and lip are smaller, the latter white streaked with reddish- 

 purple; the flowers, which are large and numerous (thirty to forty), have a 

 peculiar varnished appearance. It blooms in July and August, and remains 

 some time in beauty. This plant may be made to succeed in a basket or on a 

 block suspended from the roof, provided it has a plentiful supply of water.— 

 Madagascar. 



Fig. — But. Mag., t. 5179 ; Batem. Second Cent. Oreh. PI., t. 176 ; Flore des Serivs, 

 tt. 1488^ — 89; Orcliik Al1mv»,\y.t.\i7 ; i'Occ/wfiwpMe, 1886, p. 352 ; Lindenla, Vm. 

 t. 338 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PL, ix. p. 29. 



Stn. — Gra mmang is Ellisii. 



G. FENZLIANUM, Bchh.f. — An old species with short clavate psoudobulbs, 

 and dark green leathery leaves ; flowers about 2| inches in diameter, dull 

 yellow-green, spotted and blotched heavily with dark brown. — A'mhoyna. 



G. FENZLIANUM NIEASURESIANUM.— See G. Measttbesianum. 



G. MEASURESIANUM, Sander. — ^A beautiful new species, considered by some 

 to be only a variety of the old G. Fenzlianu-ni. Pseudobulbs short and stout ; 

 scape several feet in length, many-flowered ; flowers 3 inches across ; sepals and 

 petals spreading, oblong, acute, petals slighty narrower than the sepals, bright 

 green, profusely marked with irregular-shaped spots, and blotches of chocolate 

 or purple, and tipped with the same colour ; lip three-lobed, front lobe small, 

 side lobes larger, erect, with purple lines, the disk bearing a crest of downy 

 white hairs. Named in honour of E. H. Measures, Esq., of the Woodlands, 

 Streatham, a most enthusiastic lover of Orchids. — Philippine Islands. 



Fig.— Journ. of Hort., 1891, xxiii. p. 342, f . 69 ; YcUcK.i Man. Orcll. PL, ix. p. 31. 



Syx.— 6=. Foizliaimm Measures ianu m ; G. Seegcrianvm . 



G. MULTIFLORUM, Lindl. — The present plant is remarkable for its dwarf 

 habit, and upon this account we are surprised it has not been more frequently 

 found in collections. Pseudobulbs stem-like, some 2 feet high, stout, and 

 bearing near the summit a few strap-shaped leaves, which are leathery in 

 texture, and deep green ; scape radical from 2 to 3 feet long, bearing a raceme 

 of from sixty to seventy flowers, which are from 1| to 2 inches across ; sepals 

 and petals oblong, obtuse, the petals narrowest, yellowish-brown, striped with 

 green ; lip three-lobed, side lobes erect, somewhat falcate, anterior lobe oblong 

 downy, beai-ing three ridges in front, yellow, with reddish-brown stripes. 

 Flowers during the summer months. — Luzon. 



G. MULTIFLORUM TIGRINUM, Lindl.— This variety has yellow flowers, 

 spotted with purple, stained and striped with deep red. Blooms in the summer 

 months. — Luzon. 



G. PALUDOSUM.— See DiPomuM paltjdostjm. 



