growing close to the ground amongst other herbage, in 

 jungles and forests, are with difficulty detected. Mr. 

 Parish observes that the flowers are sometimes wholly 

 purple. The specimens here figured were sent to the 

 Royal Gardens by Mr. Peche of Moulmein, and flowered in 

 July, 1886. 



Desor. Root a tuber. Leaf two to three inches long 

 by one and a quarter to one and a half inch broad, quite 

 sessile on the tuber, and with the acute base sunk in the 

 ground, from elliptic ovate to nearly orbicular, acute or 

 acuminate, membranous, very dark green mottled with 

 brown. Scape five to seven inches high, very slender, 

 green spotted with red-brown, naked except for one 

 narrowly lanceolate erect green and spotted sheath about 

 the middle. Raceme six- to eight-flowered ; flowers distant, 

 nodding, half an inch broad across the sepals and three- 

 quarters of an inch from the top of the upper sepal to that 

 of the lip. Sepals triangular-ovate, obtuse, white and 

 green, rarely purple. Petals similar, but much smaller. 

 Lip half an inch broad, dark vinous purple, puberulous, 

 from cuneately obcordate to quadrately oblong, with rounded 

 angles and a small rounded lobe on each side, and a notched 

 or two-lobed tip. Spur shorter than the sepals, obtuse. 

 Column short, with short inflexed sides ; rostellum tongue- 

 shaped, upcurved, with reflected sides projecting as high 

 as the top of the column, puberulous. Ovary slender, 

 decurved. — J. D. H. 



Figs. 1 and 2, Side and front views of column and base of lip ; 3 and 4, pollinia : 

 -all enlarged. 



