consequently not described in the Flora of British 
India. 
Descr.—Leaves six to eight inches long by an inch broad, 
spreading and recurved, acute, glabrous, bright green above, 
pale beneath with purple spots towards the base. Scape 
one-fid., as long-as the leaves, stout, hirsute, green, with 
crowded red linear spots. Bract an inch long, oblong, 
obtuse, green, with dull purple blotches. Ovary one to’ 
one and a half inch long, green, with hirsute, dark purple 
ribs. Dorsal sepal erect, orbicular, two inches in diameter, 
at first flat, at length convex, from the sides recurving, 
rose-cold., reticulated with blood-red nerves ; lateral 
sepals connate in a broadly ovate, obtuse, pale greenish 
blade, with pale, brownish-red nerves. “Petals one and a— 
half inch long, horizontally spreading, linear-oblong, 
_ obtuse, pubescent, dull yellow-green, with five to seven 
broad, red-brown nerves. Lip saccate, dirty greenish 
yellow, suffused with brown, mouth wide, truncate, 
margins not recurved, auricles rounded. Staminode sub- 
orbicular, ivory-white, with a central boss ending i @ 
short, conical horn ; stigma reniform.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of staminode and stigma :— Both enlarged. 
