.friend- Professor KeichenbacK- The plant is similar in the outline -of its flowers 

 to M. coriacea. It is of densely tuft^ed habit, with narrowly spathnlate carinate 

 leaves, and an angular three-flowered scape, which somewhat exceeds the leaves ; 

 ■the flowers, are thin in texture, 2 inches long, and haVe a funnel-shaped tube 

 very aiarrow at the base, the dorsal ^pal triangular caudate, the lateral sepals 

 elongate triangular, with shprt slender tails ; they are yellowish-white with a 

 blood-red blotch on the posterior part in the typical form, in other varieties with 

 j^-adiating blood-red lin,es, or a nearly black blotch. \Plowers in summer. — Gosta 

 ill en. 



FlG.—Li)i(Jc>iia,M. t. 250; Gartenflora, 1892, t. 13,65 ; WouJward's Muiicl.,ii. t.lS- 



NI. ROEZLII, Rclib.f. — An interesting species, whose flowers resemhle those 

 of M. Chimaera both in their triangular outline and their dark purplish-brown 

 colour ; the leaves are oblong ligulate ; the flowers are produced singly on the 

 scape, which has the peculiarity, as is usual in the groiip (.fide Echb.), of 

 developing blossoms in succession, though only after a considerable interval ; 

 the perianth is spread out nearly flat, the sepals, which are oply connate at the 

 very base, having an oblong limb extended at the apex into aii entire linear- 

 filiform tail about 2 inches long; the small ligulate bi-lobed petals and broadly 

 saccate lip occupy the centre, the latter being entire at the edge with the front 

 inflexed. and having down the centre three longitudinal nerves and several 

 transverse nervilles on each side ; the colour of the flower is a fine deep blackish- 

 purple, with still darker warts near the margin, the disk pale and somewhat 

 Tessellated; the petals and lip are light( mauve, the former having beautiful 

 dark eye blotches. Blooms in summer. — yew Grenada. 

 Fio, — Xiniii Orcli., ii. t. 186, f. 2 ; Zindenla,i. t. 15. 



NI. ROEZLII RUBRA, Eoi-t. — A handsome and brighter-coloured form of 

 Jlf. Soe::Jii, with erect flower-scapes 6 to 8 inches long, and large widespread 

 flowersi the three triangular sepals being only connate at the very base, each 

 tipped by a chocolate-red tail 3 or 4 inches long; the general colour of the 

 flower is a creamy yellow, mottled with dark chocolate-red, and the inner 

 .surface is scabrous,; the petals are narrow, round at the top, pale fawn with a 

 .purple spot near the end, and the lip is yellowish, tongue-shaped, roundish-oblong 

 in front, with inflexed edges. ^-Xev: Grenada. 



Fig.— Orchid Alburn^ vi. t. 243. 



M. ROLFEANA, Kriin~lin. — This was flowered by Messrs. Sander & Co., 

 and exhibited by them before the Eoyal Horticultural Society. Dr. Kranzlin 



. describes it as follows : — " A very remarkable new species, in the way of 

 M: relifera, Rchb. f. The flowers have, with the tails, a length of 2i inches, 

 the tails themselves being about 1^ inch, the upper one is straight, the lower 



' ones are curved backwards at the base, and upwards at the ends ; the whole 

 flower has a rich chocolate-brown colour, except at the basal parts of the tube, 

 where it is honey-coloured; the thick and leathery leaf is about twice as long ' 

 as the one-flowered flower-stalk, it is obovate-cuneate, three-toothed at the 

 apfex, the tniddle tooth is much smaller than the lateral ones ; the flower-stalk 

 is very short, having scarcely the length of the pedicdled ovary, which is 

 itself much longer than its sheath leaf" (Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1891, ix. 

 p. 4S8}.^U. S. of .Colombia. 



