oblong, but below tapering, deep yellow, waxy, solid pollen-masses, 
fixed by their base to an oblong white gland, which forms a beak from 
beneath the anther, before the falling of the latter. 
This is one among the many, and not the least curious, 
of the prchideous plants, introduced by the late Baron de 
ScHACK to our gardens from Trinidad. Bulbs of it were re- 
ceived at the Liverpool Botanic Garden, where they flowered 
in the month of June of the present year (1825), and whence 
a magnificent spike of two feet in length, together with the 
bulb and leaves, were sent to me by Mr H. Shepherd. 
There can, I think, be no question that it belongs to the 
genus Gongora of Ruitz and Pa von, of which only one 
species had hitherto been discovered ; the one upon which the 
genus was founded. The flowers of that species are figured in 
the 25th plate of the Prodromus of the Flora Peruviana, 
and seem to differ principally from those here given in having 
the three outer petals concave, and the lip remarkably gibbous 
beneath, and with only two prominent teeth above. 
Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. Fig. 2. Back view of do. Fig. 3. View of 
the under side of the labellum. Fig. 4. Lateral view of the labellum. 
Fig. 5. Column. Fig. 6. Top of the column, with the anther removed. 
Fig. 7. Anther case. Fig. 8. Pollen-mass — All more or less magnified^ 
