specimen here figured was taken, was purchased from the 

 Nursery of Mr. Bruant of Poitiers, and flowered in the Palm 

 House of Kew in September of last year. It is a very 

 free-growing climber. 



Desce. A tall glabrous climber, with slender pendulous 

 branches and branchlets. Leaves three to five inches across 

 the lateral lobes, petioled, subpeltate, trifid to below the 

 middle, base truncate, lobes oblong-lanceolate acute, all 

 narrowed from the base to the tip, the lateral diverging 

 nearly at right angles with the mid-lobe, margins quite entire 

 but with a few scattered glands, upper surface dull pale 

 green, under a paler bluer green, rather glaucous ; petiole 

 one to one and a half inch long, terete, smooth except for 

 a few scattered glands ; stipules foliaceous, oblong-ovate, 

 subacute, unequal-sided, one side produced below into a 

 rounded auricle, coloured like the leaves ; tendrils strong. 

 Peduncles solitary from the same axils as the leaves and 

 tendrils, one-flowered, six to eight inches long, slender, 

 pendulous, upcurved towards the lip, thus bringing the 

 flower to an erect position. Involucral hracts three, about 

 an mch long, erect, very unequal sided, the larger produced 

 downwards into an auricle. Flowers three inches in 

 diameter, very shortly pedicelled above the involucre. 

 (jalyz-tvbe very short, terete, deeply intruded at the base, 

 constricted a little below the bases of the lobes ; lobes 

 lmear-oblong, concave, obtuse, pale pinkish lilac with a 

 very broad green herbaceous dorsal centre that ends below 

 the lip in an incurved green terete spur an inch long. 

 Petals like the sepals without the green back and spur. 

 Corona of innumerable filaments in many series, the outer 

 of which are nearly as long as the petals, white at the base, 

 then violet with white tips, the inner are much shorter and 

 purple. Torus short cylindric. Filaments short, very thick, 

 and like the short clavate styles as green spotted with 

 purple. Ovary tomentose— J. D. H. 



+w!L^ Se( ? i0n A f fl01,V ? r with the se P als and P^als removed ; 2 and 3, portion of 

 tne corona ; 4 and 5, anthers :— all enlarged. 



