Samples of this species collected iu Nepal are deposited 
in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium; and seed of it has been 
recently sent from the botanic garden at Calcutta, by Dr. 
Wallich, under the present name. 
The drawing was made at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- 
vill, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is culti- 
vated in the hothouse, and flowers during the early part of 
the summer. 
Whether it is a genuine Neorria or not, we do not pre- 
tend to decide, never having critically inspected any one 
of the genus. According to the latest definition, the la- 
bellum should be beardless in Neorria, which is not the 
case here; but that may be a circumstance not essential to 
the group. 
Scapes several simple 2-3 feet high, sheathed by the 
petioles of the numerous spreading scattered lanceolate 
foliage. Spikes terminal, simple, cylindrically elongated, 
from 6 inches to a foot in length, with numerous small 
open-ranked greenish white inconspicuous flowers: axis 
round, villous. Germen about ¿ of an inch long, about 1 
longer than the corolla, half inveloped by a rather longer 
greenish bracte, which is pointed and villous on the out- 
side. Label fleshy, nearly of the colour of the rest of the 
corolla but fading to a rusty white, of the same length 
as the other petals but much broader, sessile, upright, 
ovate, shortly pointed, entire, ventricose at the base where 
it is bearded within, top shortly recurved and bluntly 
pointed, palate frosted, slightly pulvinate, and intersected 
by a single furrow. 
