For this very remarkable orchideous plant, our garden is in- 
debted to the liberality of Baron De Schack, M.D. who trans- 
mitted it from the island of Trinidad. It has been cultivated 
by us in the same manner as the other parasitic Orchideae, the 
soil being a mixture of loam and peat, and its situation a warm 
shelf in the stove. 
There is a peculiarity in the structure of the lip of this 
plant, which I have not seen in any other individual of the 
tribe ; but the circumstances which most strikingly distinguish 
it from every other with which I am acquainted, and which I 
have considered to be of sufficient importance to constitute the 
ground of a generic distinction, are to be found in the beak- 
like processes of the top of the column and of the anther, which 
singularly resemble the head and beak of a bird, and the na- 
ture of its stalked pollen-masses. 
Fig. 1. Flower, fully expanded, in its natural position. Fig. 2. Flower re- 
curved, and not entirely expanded. Fig. 3. Inside of the lip. Fig. 4. 
Outside of the same. Fig. 5. Column and anther. Fig. 6. Top of the 
column, with its pollen-masses. Fig. 7. Anther-case, removed from the 
column. Fig. 8. Pollen-masses, stalk and glands. Fig. g. Back of the 
upper part of this stalk, with the pollen-masses. — All more or less magni- 
J^ed. 
