corymbose raceme. Bracts lanceolate, acute, scarious, one-nerved. 
Stalked ovaries much exserted. Chin obtusangular, retrorse. 
Sepals and tepals ligulate-subacute, sometimes dilated towards 
their apex, whitish with some purple and green. Lip with a 
linear equal claw, and a refract trifid hastate lamina. Lateral 
lacinie of the lamina nearly quadrate or obtusangular; the 
middle lacinia retuse emarginate; the lip light purplish, with 
some darker purplish veins. Colwmn slender, trigonous, purplish, 
bearing on each side of the stigmatic hollow an ascending subu- 
late or trigonous arm. Rostellwm deflexed, emarginate. <Anther- 
case depressed, deep purplish; four pollinaria bent inwards, 
bearing a confluent bifid caudicula. 
The artist has observed a hollow at the base of the column, 
and a similar one at the base of the claw of the lip. We had not 
the opportunity of seeing any such things in the fresh flowers, 
nor can we see such in the carefully expanded dried flowers we 
have at hand. Yet such ornaments are developed in some 
Poneras, and they may perhaps only be developed in older 
specimens. We have frequently observed that the first flowers 
obtained in our stoves are very often not so fully developed as 
those we obtain from fully-established plants. 
Materials :—Sketches and descriptions from living plants; one 
dried specimen : all taken from the single living plant we know 
of, that in the Saundersian collection. 
Tab. 98.— A plant. 1, side view of a two-flowered raceme; 2, front 
view of expanded flower; 3, lateral view of flower, both sepals and tepals 
removed; 4, oblique view of lip; 5, column, front view; 6, pollinaria, 
seen from above; 7, side view of the same: all magnified —H. G. Rf. f. 
This rare Orchid, with very small flowers and curiously formed 
stems, I obtained from Santa Fé de Veraguas, through the kind- 
ness of the late Mr. G. U. Skinner. It thrives, and flowers 
regularly in the Mexican house, grown on a block of wood, and 
abundantly supplied with moisture during the growing season. 
During rest it must be kept moderately dry.—W. W. S. 
