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Eriopsis (Flowers showy pedicellate)

Flowers showy, pedicellate; sepals equal, spreading, free, or the lateral ones connate with the foot of the column in a very short chin; petals similar to the sepals; lip affixed to the foot of the column, shortly incumbent, at length erect, the lateral lobes broad, erect, loosely enfolding the column, the middle one small, spreading, entire or two-lobed; column rather long, incurved; pollen masses two. Leaves usually two, long, ample. To the species described on p. 528, Vol. 1., the following should now be added: E. Sprucei (Dr. Spruce's). fl., sepals and petals light yellow, the latter with red borders; side lobes of the lip whitish, dotted red, nearly circular, the middle one lemon-yellow, with mauve spots at the base of the broad stalk, transversely elliptic, the disk white, with two acute horns on the middle; raceme long, cylindrical. l. cuneate-oblong, acute. Amazons, 1884.