CORYANTHES MACULATA PUNCTATA. [Plate 98.] Native of Demerara. Epiphytal. _Pseudobulbs_ ovate or sometimes narrowed and elongate, furrowed, two to three inches long, tapering upwards, clustered. _Leaves_ two, from the apex of each pseudobulb, broadly lanceolate, plicate, submembranaceous, light green, about a foot long. _Scape_ radical, pendent, one and a half foot long, brownish purple, bearing a _raceme_ of several flowers. _Bracts_ large, membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate, two or three sheathing ones on the scape, and one at the base of each pedicel. _Flowers_ large, very peculiar in form, ochraceous yellow, curiously spotted and blotched with deep wine-purple; _sepals_ conduplicate flexuose, membranaceous, the dorsal one small, oblong, the lateral ones broad, at first spreading, but at length becoming reflexed and resembling bats’ wings, pale ochraceous yellow, the surface thickly spotted with small dots of deep wine-purple; _petals_ oblong, erect, twisted, much smaller than the sepals, of the same colour, but having the spots larger; _lip_ stipitate, continuous with the base of the column, cup-shaped, having a large helmet-shaped pedunculate appendage, the cup yellowish, the appendage creamy white, spotted and blotched on both surfaces with deep wine-purple, the purple colour almost covering the anterior side. _Column_ terete, recurved, two horned at the base, two winged. Coryanthes maculata punctata, _Lindley, Folia Orchidacea_, art. _Coryanthes_, No. 2.; _Reichenbach fil._, in _Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematica_, vi., 598. Coryanthes punctata, _Lindley, Botanical Register_, t. 1793. _Coryanthes_ is a most curious and interesting genus of Orchids, and but few species have yet come under our notice. We have long known _C. macrantha_ and _C. speciosa_, which are two distinct kinds. That which we now figure is much like _C. macrantha_, with the exception that the crimson colouring is darker. Our drawing was taken from a fine specimen in the superb collection of W. McDonald, Esq., Woodlands, Perth, who is a great admirer of good Orchids. _Coryanthes maculata punctata_ is an evergreen plant, with short, thick pseudobulbs about two inches in height, bearing light green foliage about a foot in height. The flower spike proceeds from the base of the pseudobulbs, several flowers being produced together on the some scape; they are yellow, spotted with crimson. The plant, which blooms during October and November lasts but a few days in flower; it is, however, well worth growing on account of the extraordinary form of its flowers. Before they open they remind one of a Chinese foot; after opening they form a kind of cup having above it a pair of fleshy horns from which a liquid is distilled which drops into the cup.