0. striata ba9 been found l>y all collectors in the woods 

 near the town of Nagasaki, and by some at Kanagawa ; 

 and is supposed to be not unfrequent in the Archipelago 

 in mountain forests. 



For this beautiful plant the Royal Gardens are indebted 

 to Mr. Moore of Glasnevin ; it flowered in the cool Orchid 

 House in March of this year. It came under the name of 

 C. Sieboldii, which is one of the many forms of striata. 



Descr. Stem one to six inches, formed of the sheaths 

 surrounding the bases of the leaves, which are green, 

 tubular, obtuse and strongly ribbed. Leaves six to ten 

 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, plicately five- to seven- 

 nerved, sessile on their sheaths, or narrowed into a petiole 

 which is sometimes eight inches long. Scape together 

 with the raceme eighteen inches long, stout, erect ; flowers 

 loosely racemed, one and a half to two and a half inches in 

 diameter ; bracts small, lanceolate ; pedicels three-quarters 

 of an inch long. Sepals and petals spreading, with acute 

 recurved tips (in the Kew specimen), cinnamon-brown 

 with golden edges internally, externally golden yellow ; 

 dorsal sepal the largest, oblong, lateral oblong-lanceolate ; 

 petals rather narrower. Lip rather longer than the sepals, 

 white or pale yellow, three-partite, lobes of nearly equal 

 length, lateral very variable in form, semi-ovate, orbicular 

 or hatchet-shaped, obtuse, wing-like, midlobe cuneately 

 obcordate, with three erect lamellae edged with red along 

 the disk reaching nearly to the apex, and rising towards 

 the base of the lip into three oblong tubercles. Spur slender, 

 incurved, about half as long as the sepals if straightened 

 out, white. Anther with a straight obtuse horn. Column 

 very short, puberulous. — /. P. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower with sepals and petals removed ; 2, column and base of lip 

 3, anther ; 4, pollinia:— all enlarged. 



