pouched at the base where it is downy within, and of a yellow 
colour dotted with red; above this is a thick quadrangular 
wart-like appendage, of a deep sanguineous-red, hollow beneath 
in the front, and with two lateral lobes, which are erect and 
meet the column, these lobes being truncately-rounded, deep- 
yellow, and marked with large red spots; the terminal portion 
or front lobe is oblong-obovate, bluntish, narrowed and spotted 
with red towards the base. In one flower, represented in the 
upper part of our figure, this terminal lobe was narrower and 
more oblong, as well as prolonged into an acuminated point. 
The lip may therefore be said to be pouched at the base, and 
three-lobed in front, with a central quadrate warty crest. The 
column is cream-coloured, downy at the back, and spotted with 
red inside at the base. 
This plant appears to be a native of Costa Rica, and was im¬ 
ported in 1849. Dr. Lindley describes it as very near A . Bar¬ 
ken , but differing “in having a more concave hypochil, the 
tooth of which is not notched at the point; an entire epichil, 
remarkably warted at the base; and the lateral lobes of the 
metachil not at all rounded, with the posterior angles of the 
intermediate appendage sinuous, and not extended into a long 
subulate process.” 
We learn from Mr. Lawrence, that the plant which has 
flowered under his care, has been grown in a basket, in a mix¬ 
ture of sphagnum and fibrous peat, and treated in every respect 
like the other species in cultivation. 
