A highly curious little orchideous plant, which was reared 
in the stove of the Botanic Garden at Liverpool, to which 
establishment it had been sent, as Mr H. Shepherd informs 
me, from Trinidad, through the well-known liberality of Baron 
De Shack, M. D. It flowered in May 1824. It had pre- 
viously blossomed in Mr Griffin's collection in South Lam- 
beth, in 1820, and was then figured by Mr Lindley, in his 
Collectanea Botanica, under the same appellation, and with 
the generic characters, which I have adopted. 
Fig. 1. Single flower in its natural position. Fig. 2. Front view of flower. 
Fig. 3. Column, and three of the petals. Fig. 4. The upper united pe- 
tals. Fig. 5. Lip. Fig. 6. Side view of the column, with its anther 
closed. Fig. 7- Upper part of the column, with the anther-case thrown 
back, to shew the situation of the pollen-masses. Fig. 8. Back and front 
view of the pollen-masses* — All more or less magnified^ 
