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Grammatophyllum (SYNS Gabertia Pattonia Flowers)

SYNS. Gabertia, Pattonia. Flowers showy, on long pedicels; sepals and petals sub-equal, free, spreading; lip affixed above the base of the column, erect, concave, the lateral lobes rather broad, erect, loosely embracing the column, the middle one short, recurved-spreading, narrow or dilated; column erect, rather shorter than the lip; raceme loosely many-flowered; scape long, simple. Leaves distichous, often very long. To the species described on p. 92, Vol. II., the following should now be added: G. elegans (elegant). fl. showy, six or seven on an erect peduncle 1ft. high; sepals sepia brown, with ochre yellow margins oblong; petals the same colour, narrower; lip yellow, with brown markings in front and a hairy disk, trifid, the front lobe wedge-shaped and emarginate; column white, with a pair of brown lines below the stigma. l. elongated, distichous. Pseudo-bulbs rather large, oblong. South Sea Islands, 1883.