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An unrecorded orchideous species, recently introduced 
from the Brasils by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Ham- 
mersmith Nursery, where the drawing was taken from a 
plant that flowered in the hothouse in January last. We 
have enrolled it under Goopyrra, notwithstanding the dis- 
agreement in regard to a characteristic that has been pro- 
posed as essential to that genus; viz. the convergence of the 
two exterior front segments of the corolla under the label, 
which two segments are here widely divergent, and extended 
like wings. In general resemblance, however, the plant 
approaches too near to GoopyEra to suggest the expediency 
of originating a new generic group from it, especially as that 
genus is still sparingly stocked with species. A very slight 
modification of the present generic character will make room 
for our plant. 
-  Rootstock fleshy horizontal, cylindrical, about the thick- 
ness of a man’s finger, scored in circles by the scars of the 
fallen leaves, blackish red or liver-coloured, caudescent and 
radicant upwards, unbranched, leafy at the top. Leaves | 
scattered all round, two-coloured, sheathingly petioled, 
sheaths red, blade thickish, oval, tapered both ways, acu- 
minate, about 3 inches long, finely and shiningly chagreened, 
blackish green on the upper side, on the under smooth, and 
crimson-coloured, longitudinally nerved, flexuosely veined 
in the intervals of the nerves. Scape terminal, upright, 
stiff, about a foot long, of the thickness of a pen or thicker, 
round, covered by a white fur, furnished here and there 
with barren close-pressed bractes larger than those of the 
inflorescence. Spike simple, upright, cylindrical loosishly 
manyflowered, about 3 inches long. Bractes membranous, 
red, glitteringly frosted, lanceolately acuminate, convolute, 
longer than the germen, 3-nerved, upright, sharp-pointed, 
slightly fringed. lowers reversed, nodding, sessile, white, 
crucially ringent, about 3 of an inch across: germen twisted 
half an inch long, bent at the top, rather longer than the 
corolla, white-furred. Corolla appearing as of 4 sezments 
only; segments of one length, outer opaquely frosted, inner 
shiningly frosted; casgue ovately elliptic, upright, obtuse 
gibbous at the back, formed of 2 lateral narrow paraboli- 
cally lanceolate interior segments that lap over and adhere 
by their inmost edge to each side of a middle oval one of 
twice their own breadth; 2 exterior lateral segments ob- 
longly ovate with a rounded point, horizontally spread, in- 
tersecting the ricture of the flower transversely, slanting 
