rocks in Siam, as its two allies are of like situations in 
Burma; it was introduced by Mr. Godefroy Lebceuf of 
Argenteuil, who named it in compliment to his wife, and 
it has flowered first in his and subsequently in other 
collections. Our plant was received in 1884 from Mr. 
Alabaster, when in charge of the public gardens of 
Bankok in Siam, who procured it from the Birds’ Nest 
Islands in 1884, and it flowered in September of the 
following year. 
Drsor. Stem very short, clothed with three to four pairs 
of equitant horizontally spreading leaves, and throwing up 
very short stout one-flowered scapes. Leaves glabrous, 
four to six inches long, linear-oblong, obtuse acute or 
obscurely two-fid at the tip, keeled beneath by the midrib, 
which is sunk above. Upper surface dark green mottled 
with pale greenish-white, lower densely spotted with rich 
red-brown, the spots becoming confluent. Scape one-half 
to one inch high, stout, tomentose, spotted like the leaves 
beneath ; bract very broad, about half an inch long, com- 
plicate, coloured like the leaves. Ovary three-quarters of 
an inch long, villous with red-brown hairs. Perianth 
about two inches in diameter, white with dark and pale 
rounded spots of red purple or chocolate red. Dorsal 
sepal erect, concave, very broadly ovate, obtuse, faintly 
pubescent on both surfaces; lateral sepals confluent into a 
much smaller elliptic villous blade behind the lip. Petals 
much larger than the dorsal sepal, orbicular-oblong. Lip 
nearly one inch long, cylindric, faintly and minutely 
spotted, base rounded, mouth hardly dilated. Staminode 
much smaller than the mouth of the hip, subquadrately 
oblong, spotted, tip trifid.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Staminode and stigma :—enlarged. 
