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* Root fascicled, with cylindrical, acute, very hairy fibres. Leaves 
few, three to four, with long, channelled stalks, cuneate-oblong, 
acute, beautifully green, and of a thickish texture. Common 
flower-stalk cylindrical, with some adpressed acute sheaths, the 
inferior ones approximate, the superior distant, with a few 
scattered hairs below and a large number between the flowers. 
Inflorescence racemoso-spicate, the pedicels being only well deve- 
loped in the lower part. Flowers not very crowded, but very 
numerous, of a uniform green. Bracts ligulate, acuminate, five- 
nerved, very often unusually oblique at their base, nearly equal 
to the ovaries. Ovaries nearly or totally hairless. Upper sepal 
short, ovate, acuminate. Lateral sepals triangular-falcate, ex- 
panded into a cylindrical horn, slit very deeply on the anterior 
side. Tepals cuneate-oblong, acute. Lip ligulate, attenuate, 
lanceolate before the angular lateral lobes, with some pimply hairs 
on the disk. Free column clavate. Androcliniwm rounded, with a 
small point in the middle and no borders on the side. Stigmatie 
hollow crescent-shaped or triangular. Anther oblong, with a blunt 
keel over the ridge. Pollinia two, each consisting’ of lobes. 
Caudicle short, deeply slit. Glandule oblong-acute, dark. 
Materials:—Two analytical sketches prepared from fresh 
flowers ; twelve herbarium specimens. 
Tab. 97.—Upfer and lower part of the plant. 1, front view of a 
flower + ; 2, side view of a flower + ; 8, part of flower; sepals, petals 
cut, except a part of the spur to show the places where the lip is 
adherent, as is usual in the genus +; 4, column +; 5, pollinarium, 
added by Rehb. f.—H. G@. Rh. f. 
My specimens of this plant I received from Rio Janeiro, 
collected there by the late Mr. D. Bowman. ‘The plant is of easy 
cultivation and flowers freely, potted in spongy peat with a little 
loam, and well drained. It should be grown in a damp, shady, 
cool stove.-—W. W. S. ’ 
