in the singular clayey-brown colour of the flower and its 
green spur. I have seen no leaves, and Lindley has described 
the plant as aphyllous, a character which I greatly doubt. 
It is, of course, possible that several species are here con- 
founded, but the uniform shape of the perianth and lip in all 
renders this unlikely. 
C. sanguinea inhabits the tropical region of Sikkim, and is 
found in dense forests, at 3-5000ft. elevation; the Kew 
plants flowered from tubers which have been received both 
from the late Dr. Anderson, of the Calcutta Botanical 
Gardens, and Mr. Gammie, of Darjeeling. 
Drscr. Tuber two to three inches long, oblong-cylindric, 
annulate, pale. Scape one to one and a half feet high, stout 
or slender, with three sheathing bracts below the middle, 
which pass into subulate bracts above; the floral longer or 
shorter than the ovary. Pedicels and ovary slender, green. 
Flower one and a half to two inches in diameter, varying 
from pale red-purple to brown, with the lip pale and rosy. 
Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate. Petals 
shorter, more elliptic, obtuse, with three small teeth at the 
tip. Zip shorter than the petals, produced bebind into a short, 
broad, obtuse projecting spur; limb 3-lobed; lateral lobes 
incurved, obtuse, with a purple spot within at the base of 
each ; mid-lobe expanded, recurved, rounded, very obtuse ; 
disk with three close-set keels, which give off radiating raised 
papillose branched nerves that almost reach the margin. 
Column produced at the top into a truncate or minutely- 
notched tip.—/. D. . 
Fig. 1, Petal; 2, ovary, column and lip; 3, lip; 4, column; 5, pollen :— 
all magnified. 
