from Mr. Descourtilz’s drawings, appeared lately in the Royal 
Exotic Nursery of Messrs. Veitch. 
Adventitious roots filiform, thin, very flexuose. Younger pseudo- 
bulbs with numerous imbricate triangular ancipitous sheaths, the 
highest now and then with a leaf-blade. Pseudobulb ligulate or 
oblong-ligulate, ancipitous, two-leaved. Leaves cuneato-ligulate 
acute. Flower-stalk elongate, nearly ancipitous, covered under 
the racemose part with numerous imbricating triangular acute 
ancipitous sheaths. Raceme many-flowered. Bracts linear- 
spathaceous, acuminate, scarlose, spreading, reminding one of 
Heliconias, as long or longer than the flowers. Sepals ligulate- 
acute. Tepals generally a little broader. Lip adnate above the 
base of the column, broadly cuneate pandurate-acute or oblong- 
acute, undulated and crenulated at the margin, with radiating 
velvety veins and two keels coming from a tooth-like conical 
process at the very base of that organ. Wings of column narrow, 
often lobed, now entire, passing under the stigmatic hollow. 
Infrastigmatic table wholly or half-covered by the claw of the 
lip. ‘The whole of the organs, roots excepted, have generally a 
yellowish or copper-coloured hue. The sheaths and bracts are 
straw-coloured ; sepals and tepals sulphur-coloured, finally yellow, 
even ochroleucous; the lip whitish, the radiating velvety veins 
purplish; wings of column whitish or yellowish, now with purplish 
dots. The dried flowers turn out of a cinnabar-colour, as is often 
seen in the so-called Brassia Lanceana and Lawrenceana and 
Aspasia lunata. 
Materials :—Sketches from living plants; description of living 
plant made at Leipsic; nineteen herbarium specimens. * 
Tab. 126.—A very small plant (and yet a specimen collected by 
Riedel is not equalling it half!). 1, column and lip +; 2, column, 
lip cut +; 8, column, lip cut, side view +. The two last figures 
given by Professor Reichenbach. 
T obtained this old inhabitant of our stoves, many years since, 
from Mr. Masters, of Canterbury. When well grown it produces 
a good effect. Treated as recommended for Oncidiwm planilabre, 
Tab. 1238, 1t will thrive and flower freely.—W. W. S. 
