Refugium Botanicum. [June, 1869. 
TAB. 96. 
Tribe MAanuaxIpE&. 
Genus PuysosipHon, Lindl. 
P. punctuuatus, Lchb. f. in v. Mohl. & v. Schlechtendal Bot. Zeit. 1866, 
p- 385. Caule secundario brevissimo, czespitosus, folio spatulato 
apice subineequaliter bilobo cum apiculo interjecto, carnosissimo, 
pedunculo tenui capillari folium bene excedente minute ac distanter 
nigro-punctato pluri-vaginato, vaginis ochreatis acutis, bracteis 
ochreatis ovaria pedicellata non equantibus, perigonio externo tubu- 
loso, sepalis per nervos medios extos carinatis, medium usque 
fissis, laciniis oblongis obtuse acutis, tepalis brevissimis ligulatis 
apice retusis cum apiculo in medio (nunc simpliciter acutis ?), 
labello a cuneata basi medio trifido, laciniis lateralibus semi- 
quadratis, lacinia antica oblonga, carnosissima papulosa, columne 
androclinio apice trilobo lobis lateralibus obtusis, lobo medio retuso 
emarginato. 
We were astonished to find, in 1865, this little insignificant 
plant with S. Rucker, Esq., West Hill, Wandsworth, in his mag- 
nificent collection. We had a second time the pleasure of seeing 
it in October and November, 1868, in the garden of W. Wilson 
Saunders, Esq. 
A cespitose plant. Aerial roots filiform, long, flexuose, 
shrivelled. Secondary stems very short, with two or three brown 
nervous sheaths, the superior one being the wider. Leaf cuneate- 
oblong, blunt, with two obtuse edges and a very small apiculus at 
the top, very fleshy, fornicate, furrowed at the inner base. The 
cellules containing rhaphides are very conspicuous on the under 
side. Peduncle filiform, at length bent down, much longer than 
the leaf, with many distant acute sheaths, racemose at the sum- 
mit. Bracts ochreate, oblong, acute. Sepals erect, connate to 
the middle, very fleshy, equally split in three oblong retuse 
lobes, with a little mucro at their end, and keels running over 
their middle line outside, greenish yellow or honey-coloured, 
with a deep violaceous or purplish spot at each of both sides 
under the union of the dorsal and the lateral sepal. Tepals 
cuneate, obtuse, nearly retuse, with a little apiculus, deep pur- 
plish violet, three times shorter than the sepals. ip ascending, 
curved, ligulate, obtuse, with minute acute warts at its end and 
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