far better applies. The specimen here figured flowered in 

 the Royal Gardens in S ptember of last year; the plant 



sent from the Khasia hills by Mr. Gustav Mann, in 

 1835, and flowers in Septemb 



Di: ms tufted, two to three feet long, pendulous, 



half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, tapering to- 

 wards the tip ; internodes one and a half to two inches 

 long, green, deeply grooved with rounded interstices, 

 clothed nearly to the top with a membranous appressed 

 truncate sheath. Leaves towards the ends of the stem, 

 four to six inches long by one and a half broad, elliptic- 

 oblong or -lanceolate, obtuse, deep green, coriaceous. 



mes lateral, about six-flowered ; peduncle stout, clothed 

 with obliquely truncate lax ochrese, about three-quarters of 

 an inch long, the upper largest; rachis stout, curved; 

 bracts two-thirds of an inch long, oblong, obtuse, concave, 

 brown, deciduous ; pedicel and ovary one and a half inch 

 long. Wlow&rs nearly three inches in diameter across the 

 sepals, which are oblong, and as well as the much larger 

 almost orbicular petals are spreading and bright orange 

 yellow. Lip tubular at the base, with overlapping obscure 

 lateral lobes, then expanding into an almost circular or 

 reniform open limb with undulate shortly fimbriate sub- 

 reflexed margins, inner surface densely tomentose, disk 

 deep red-purple, margins broadly golden yellow. — X D. H. 



Fifj. 1, Column and lip; 2 column and mentum; 3, anther; 4, pollen ■.—all 

 enlarged^ 



