“spotted foot” is given). Leaf oblong, bidentate at its apex and 
a little cucullate, rounded at its base, with many dark violet dots 
on both sides. At the very base of the leaf, in its sinus, stands 
a small ancipitous acute sheath, bearing one after the other a few 
inflorescences, not quite equalling the length of the leaf, having 
distichous flowers near to the base. Bracts retuse, apiculate, 
shorter than the stalked ovaries. Perigone and ovary velvety 
outside. Dorsal sepal ligulate, bluntly acute, olive to yellowish 
brown, with some longitudinal purplish streaks; inferior sepal 
much broader, bidentate at its point, of the same colour, slightly 
ciliated. Tepals much shorter, equalling the column, ligulate, 
generally one-nerved, with toothlets at their blunt apex, and a 
very strong single nerve from the base to near the apex, yellowish. 
Lip rhomboid retuse to oblong, ciliated, with many small warts 
and two small semi-oblong lamelle before its base, obscurely 
sagittate at its very base, purplish, with a yellowish middle line 
at its very base. Colwmn trigono-clavate, dilated in the upper 
part, with a toothed border around the androclinium, yellowish. 
Materials :—A description and sketches prepared at Reigate, 
October, 1869, and at Hamburgh, October, 1871; two herbarium 
specimens. 
Tab. 119.—A plant. 1, flower, side view + ; 2, flower, front view + ; 
3, column, tepals, lip, side view +; 4, column, seen in oblique view + ; 
5, lip, expanded + ; 6, pollinia, side view +. 
This plant should be treated as recommended for Pleurothallis 
jloripecten, Tab. 118. My specimens were sent to me by the late 
Mr. D. Bowman, and obtained near Rio Janeiro. A strong- 
growing species, not showy, but botanically interesting. — 
W.W.S. 

