20 185. ORCHIDACEX: EPIDENDREX. 
much more developed crest. According to Mr. Ford, the sepals 
and petals are green with purplish streaks near the base, the lip 
white, passing into purple and then green near the base, the 
column pinkish, and the leaves and flower-stems mottled with 
dull purple on an olive-green ground. A plant in the Kew 
collection flowered in May, 1893. 
Hancocxrtra, Rolfe. 
(Genus novum affine Nephelaphyllo.) 
Sepala subsequalia, libera, subconniventia, omnia angusta. 
Petala sepalis subsimilia. Labellwm ad basin columns breviter 
adnatum, erectum, longe calcaratum, elliptico-oblongum, sub- 
trilobum, lobis lateralibus subinvolutis; discus tricarinatus. 
Columna erecta, longiuseula, 2-alata, apoda, vertice in clinandrium 
angustum producta. Anthera operculata, apice subobtusa, 
loculis 2, bene distinctis; pollinia 8, cerea, in quoque loculo 4, 
compressa, parallela, 2-seriata, appendicule lineari sursum 
adnata.— Herba terrestris, repens, epseudobulbosa. Folia 
solitaria, ovata, submembranacea, breviter petiolata. Scapus 
brevis, in vagina scariosa inclusus, uniflorus. Flores mediocres. 
1. Hancockia uniflora, Rolfe, sp. unica. 
Rhizoma repens, gracilis. Folia ovata, acuta, 11-13 poll. 
longa, 7-9 lin. lata; petioli 4-8 lin. lati. Scapi 2 poll. longi. 
Sepala et petala lineari-lanceolata, 9-10 lin. longa. Labellum 
8 lin. longum, 5 lin. latum; calcar tubulosum, S lin. longum. 
Columna 6 lin. longa. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, S.E. mountain forests, at 5000 ft., on 
ground (A. Henry, 11112 !). Flowers pink. Herb. Kew. 
Allied to Nephelaphyllum, but differing in its short, 1-flowered 
scapes, connivent sepals and petals, and long slender spur. It 
is dedicated to W. Hancock, Esq., F.L.S., who has sent to Kew 
several collections of dried plants from China. 
1. Tainia cordifolia, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xix. t. 1861. 
Formosa: Kelung (Ford, 561). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
2. Tainia hongkongensis, Rolfe, in Kew Bulletin (1896), p. 195. 
Ania angustifolia, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 356 (non Lindl. !). 
Honexone (Wilford, 384! Wright, 522! Hance! Ford!). 
Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
