Pogonia pulchella was first brought to Mr. Ford in 1878 
by an officer’s servant, who found it on the coast of the 
south side of the Island of Hong Kong. It was planted in 
the Hong Kong Gardens, and flowered in 1879. ‘T'ubers 
sent by Mr. Ford to Kew in 1883, and which he procured 
on the Lofan Mountains on the coast opposite to Hong 
Kong, flowered at Kew in April, 1885, and the leaves 
appeared in the following June. 
Descr. Tubers as large as a hazel-nut, white, rather 
obliquely globose, with three to four raised rings. Leaves 
one or two, two to two and a half inches in diameter, very 
shortly petioled, orbicular, acute, deeply cordate at the 
base with overlapping lobes, plaited by about twelve strong 
nerves, upper surface dull brownish-green and purple, 
sparsely clothed, especially on the nerves, with crystalline 
cellular hairs, rose-coloured beneath with the hairs chiefly 
on the nerves. Scape four to five inches high, two-flowered, 
rather slender, very pale, with three or four imbricating 
basal sheaths, and one or two lax linear-lanceolate pinkish 
ones an inch long below the middle. Flowers drooping, 
_ pedicelled, one and a half inch from the tip of the dorsal 
sepal to that of the lip. Sepals and petals similar, linear- 
oblanceolate, acuminate, dirty-yellowish, with three brown 
nerves, Jip as long as the sepals, quite glabrous, convo- 
lute portion white; lobes rose-coloured, lateral short 
rounded, terminal broadly two-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of column; 3, front, and 4, side view of anther ; 
5, pollen-masses :—al/ enlarged. 
