flowered in the garden of F. Currey, Esq., F.R.S., Sec. L.S., 
in April, 1864, and was imported, I believe, from the Khasia 
Mountains. 
Descr. Stems tufted, two to three feet long, nearly 
cylindric, grooved, leafy throughout, the nodes one to two 
inches long, not swollen, green. eaves four to six inches 
long, sessile, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate, 
striate, sheath short. Racemes numerous from the leafless 
nodes, four to seven inches long, drooping, shortly pedicelled, 
6-15-flowered ; rachis very slender, zig-zag ; pedicels one inch 
long; bracts linear-oblong, obtuse, appressed, green. Ovary 
small. Perianth two inches in diameter, dark orange-yellow, 
with two purple spots at the base of the lip. Sepals and 
petals nearly equal and similar, broadly oblong, obtuse, 
spreading, somewhat concave and incurved, margins quite 
entire ; lateral sepals produced behind into a short, obtuse 
spur. vp shorter than the sepals, oblate-orbicular, with a 
recurved entire limb that is villous on the surface and 
fimbriate on the margin. Column very short.—J. D. H. 
