Tas. 6851. 
POGONTA  puncHenta. 
Native of Hong Kong. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE#.—Tribe ARETHUSER. 
Genus Pogonta, Juss. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 615.) 
Pogonta (Nervilia) pulchella; tubere globoso, foliis 1-2 subsessilibus rotundato- 
cordatis acutis sinu clauso plicato- 12-nerviis superne e fusco-viridi purpuras- 
centibus pilis sparsis cellulosis conspersis subtus roseis nervis pilosis, scapo 
gracili bifloro Jonge nudo spathis paucis lineari-lanceolatis laxis, bracteis 
linearibus, sepalis petalis consimilibus lineari-oblanceolatis acuminatis flavo- 
fuscis 3-nerviis, labelli glaberrimi lobis roseis lateralibus brevibus angustis 
terminali bilobo. 
The Island of Hong Kong, or islet it might justly be 
called, for it boasts of but twenty-nine square miles, is 
botanically remarkable for the number and variety of 
orders, genera and species which it contains; and though 
assiduously botanized by many collectors, its Flora is ever 
being added to, not by the introduction of foreign plants, 
but by the discovery of usually undescribed species, which 
are often confined to very limited areas, and even occur in 
a small number of specimens. In 1861, Bentham, in the 
“Flora Hongkongensis,” described upwards of a thousand 
indigenous species of flowering plants and trees, of which 
no less than 408 were the only representatives of their re- 
spective genera; whilst of the 125 families of plants in the 
island, thirty-six were represented by only a single species. 
Since the publication of the ‘ Flora Hongkongensis,” a 
good many species have been added to the Flora. Ido 
not know how many, but twenty-five are known to me, 
several of which were discovered through the industry and 
acuteness of Mr. Chas. Ford, the indefatigable Superinten- 
dent of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens. Amongst this 
botanist’s latest interesting additions to the Flora are two 
orchids belonging to genera not previously detected in 
the island; one is the subject of the present plate, the 
other is the Vrydagzynia nuda, Blume (of Java), a genus 
near to Anocetochilus. 
DEC. Ist, 1885. 
