second inflorescence, the second having toothlets on the tepals 
where the first had none. The flowers represented earlier, in 
‘Sertum Orchidaceum’ and the ‘Botanical Magazine,’ were so 
pallid that Sir Robert Schomburgk expressed his astonishment 
thereat. Mr. Green, the able gardener to W. Wilson Saunders, 
Esq., had succeeded in obtaining such bright lake-coloured 
flowers. 
Pseudobulbs semifusiform or cylindraceo-conical, six to eight 
inches high, covered with older whitish sheaths, bearing little 
blackish points. eaves linear-ligulate, acuminate, glaucous, 
three feet long, one inch wide in the described Saundersian spe- 
cimen. The sheaths soon lose their laminar points. Pedunele 
rising from some of the lowermost sheaths, strong, pendulous, 
dark purplish, with very few basilar scales and a lax-flowered 
raceme. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, brownish purple, much 
shorter than the purplish stalked ovaries. Sepals and tepals 
oblong-acute or at least apiculate, the tepals sometimes serrulate 
on one side near the top, all purplish, sometimes washed with 
green. Lip helmet-shaped, oblong, obtuse-saccate, bluntly angled, 
and overlapping the base of the column with a little round edge, 
acute at the top of the wide opening, bearing a furrowed velvety 
ridge inside the said acute beak of the top, microscopically ciliate 
around the limb. Under the limb runs outside a fringed mem- 
brane, broad and ear-like at the back, and solved in bristles 
towards the middle and apex. Some little warts inside in the 
hollow of the lip. The jfimbrie microscopically muriculate. Lip 
yellowish purple outside, with numberless little yellow dots, the 
membrane and bristles deep purplish, the apex of the lip of the 
deepest violet, as is also the furrowed callosity. Column short, 
abrupt, denticulate around the androclinium. Stigmatic hollow 
roundish ; on each side of it is an angular projecting horn: the 
whole body yellowish. Anther-case oblong, umbonate at the top, 
two-eared at its base, with microscopical teeth. Pollinia oblong, 
furrowed beneath. Caudicula ligulate. Glandula oblong, very 
large. 
Materials :—I have seen the typical specimen in Dr. Lindley’s 
herbarium several times; descriptions from the living flowering 
Saundersian plant; the described inflorescence, in a dried state, 
is now at my side; sketches and analyses from the living plant 
at hand, 
