also underneath, and an oblong angulate keel on each side, run- 
ning in the disk, deep purplish violet, more purplish near the 
base. Column slender, arched, bearing an erect limb around the 
androclinium, white with purplish angles. Rostellwm retuse, 
hanging over the transverse stigmatic hollow. Anther-case mi- 
trate, obtuse, whitish with a violet summit. Pollinia two, with a 
cellulous combining matter in place of a caudicula. 
Materials: A sketch and description, prepared at Kew, from 
the Ruckerian specimen, and the same prepared at Reigate, in 
the Saundersian house, in October, 1868; two herbarium spe- 
cimens. 
Tab. 96.— The plant. 1, apex of the leaf; 2, one flower, with the 
bract and a part of the rachis; 3, front view of a flower; 4, side view of 
a flower, the outer perigone being removed; 5, anterior view of a column, 
with tepals viewed in front; .6 & 7, lip; 8, side view of pollinia; 9, front 
view of the same: all magnified. The figures 1 and 6 added by Professor 
Reichenbach, f—H. G. R. f. 
— ooo 
A very delicate and interesting little Orchid, native of Bogota, 
from whence it was obtained by Mons. Linden, of Brussels, who 
sent it to me” It shouldbe grown on a small block of wood with 
a little green moss, and kept moist at all times. Its roots are 
very thin and wire-like, perishing soon if exposed to a dry 
atmosphere.—W. W. 8. 
