fleurs violatres: sur les Erythrina, de S. Ant. Huatusco, 
Galeotti! Huatusco, Linden, 203! Orizaba, Weber! My garden 
specimens were obtained from Paris by my lamented friend 
EK. Desvaux! from the gardens of Messrs. Schiller, Saunders, and 
Day. I was once deceived by a singular monster, having the 
sepals and calli different. Dr. Lindley states the plant was sent 
from Guatemala by the late Mr. Skinner to J. Bateman, Hsq. 
Aérial roots stout for such a small, generally tiny plant, 
much bent, flexuose, not long. Pseudobulbs few, several tri- 
angular ancipitous scariose sheaths, and two articulate leaves 
under them. Leaves of pseudobulb one or two, cuneate-lanceolate 
acute. Common flower-stalks generally numerous, one or two 
proceeding from the axils of the leaves beneath the bulb. Under 
the inflorescence stand a few ample acuminate distant sheaths. 
Inflorescence racemose, even panicled by a few side-branches. 
Bracts triangular, scariose, ochreate, many-nerved, not nearly 
equalling the stalked ovaries. Sepals oblong-ligulate blunt, the 
lateral ones divided in very different degrees, now nearly to the 
base, now only at the top, with all intermediate grades. ‘T'epals 
oblong or oblong-triangular, blunt. Lip cuneate-oblong, blunt, 
bilobed at its apex, with a pulvinate oblong hairy callus from the 
middle of the disk or behind it near to the base, where 1s a honey- 
secreting hollow surrounded by a square border of keels, varying 
in circumference to oblong... Column short. Androclinvum with 
a velvety border. Rostellum projecting, lanceolate-bidentate. One 
flat triangular arm on each side of the stigmatic hellow. Caudicle 
ligulate. 
Materials :—Sketches from the dry specimens prepared since 
1844; sketches from fresh flowers; descriptions from fresh 
flowers; copy of Dr. Lindley’s original sketches; twenty-two 
herbarium specimens. 
Tab. 125.—The plant. I never saw such a strong-bulbed, grand- 
leaved specimen. 1, fiower, front view +; 2, the same, oblique back 
view +; 8, lip and column, side view +; 4, lip, artificially ex- 
panded +; 5, column, showing the top +; 6, pollinarium +. 
This plant seems to do well when grown in a cool house on 
a block and kept near the light. It is not a very free grower. 
My specimens were obtained from the Messrs. Low, of Clapton, 
and came from Mexico.—W. W. S. 
