capillary axis, from which radiate ten longitudinal crenate 
undulate plates, of equal breadth and extreme delicacy. The 
whole organ is not more than one-sixth to one-fourth of an 
inch long, of a brilliant red-purple colour transversely banded 
with white. These appendages suggested the very appro- 
priate name of /emniscatum (from lemniscus, a coloured ribbon). 
Of their possible use I can form no conception; they fall off 
as the flower expands. 
The Rev. C. Parish discovered this plant flowering on an 
old shingle roof at Zwakabin, in Moulmein, in November, 
1868, and sent plants to the Royal Gardens in 1870, which 
flowered in July of the present year. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs a half to three-quarters of an inch in 
diameter, depressed, tubercled. eaves in a tuft of three or 
four, springing from the base of the pseudobulb, one and a 
half to two inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, deciduous. — 
Scape also from the base of the pseudobulb, four to six 
inches high, capillary, with two or three short sheaths below 
the middle, and one very long slender slightly inflated one 
above it. Spike pendulous from the curved tip of the scape, 
three-quarters of an inch long, oblong; bracts small, sub- 
ulate. Flowers one-twelfth to one-tenth of an inch long, 
crowded, imbricate. Ovary short. Sepals dark purple, green 
at the base, coriaceous, connivent, united below the middle, 
setose, with long spreading hairs, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 
3-grooved (appendages described above). Petals small, in- — 
cluded, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, rather longer than and 
appressed to the column, white with a purple streak. Lip 
broadly ovate, recurved, convex, very obtuse, quite smooth, 
dark-blue purple. Column with a sharp decurved prominent _ 
beak on either side.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1 and 2, flowers; 3, transverse section of appendage; 4, column, 
petals and lip; 5, column; 6 and 7, pollen :—all magnified. 
