Communicated from the rich collection of orchideous plants 
at Liverpool by Messrs Shepherds, having been sent from 
the East Indies by Dr Carey in 1820, under the name of 
Cymbidium Calceolaria. It is not, however, the Dendrobium 
Calceolus of Roxburgh's drawings and MSS. in the Li- 
brary of the Honourable the East India Company, which has 
acuminated leaves, small flower, and a different lip. 
The blossom of the present species is as large as that of our 
Dendrobium Harrisonice, equally handsome, and since it bears 
several flowers upon a peduncle, it makes a much more showy 
appearance. These flowers close at night, but during the day 
expand so much, that the petals, or segments of the perianth, 
stand out horizontally, and the lip is so remarkably inflated, 
that, were it seen separately from the rest of the blossom, it 
might be taken for that of a Calceolaria ; and hence no doubt 
Dr Carey was induced to give it its present specific appella- 
tion. 
Fig. 1. Side view of the lip in its natural position. Fig. 2. Ditto forced 
open to shew the column. Fig. 3. Front view of the column with the 
lip forced down. Fig. 4. Column a. where the lip was jointed upon. 
Fig. 5. Back view of the column, the anther-case having flown up, and 
attached by its filamentous process. Fig. 6. Inner view of an anther. 
Fig. 7' Pollen-mass — All more or less magnified. 
