where. I cannot but suspect its being a variety of 
D. primulinum, together with the Coromandel plant and 
other allied forms. 
The specimen from which the accompanying drawing 
was made was flowered by Mr. Bull, who received it from 
the Himalaya (probably Sikkim), where it was found at an 
elevation of 5000 feet. It flowered in June, 1874, in his. 
nursery. 
Descr. Stems pendulous, fascicled, one to two feet long, 
slender, clothed with pale appressed sheaths; internodes 
one and a half to two and a half inches long. Leaves three 
to four inches long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, wavy}. 
sheaths green. Flowers solitary, or two to three on a very 
short common peduncle at each node of the flowering-stem, 
two to two and a quarter inches in diameter ; pedicels very 
slender, together with the very small ovary one inch long; 
bracts minute, ovate, acute. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, white, with a violet-purple blotch from the tip to one- 
third way down; spreading and recuryed. Petals similar in 
shape and colour, but broader. ip with a convolute tube, 
expanding into a trumpet-shaped mouth and broadly ovate 
limb that is minutely fimbriate round the edge; lateral 
lobes hardly distinguishable from the broad subacute 
terminal one, which is violet-purple, with three broad deeper- 
coloured veins, and white margins; concavity of the lip 
velvety and yellow, with a few purple streaks on each side ; 
spur half an inch long, truncate. © Column yery short.— 
J. Ds Hi: 
Fig. 1, Pedicel, ovary, lip, and spore :—magnified. 
