plant produced one flower in March of the present year. 

 The plate here published is made up from this flower and the 

 figure given in my illustrations of Himalayan plants, which is 

 a faithful copy from a beautiful drawing (itself executed with 

 the scrupulous fidelity of a Hindoo draughtsman), made in the 

 Himalaya itself during my stay there, by a native artist 

 employed at Darjeeling by my late friend Judge Cathcart. 

 Comparing the colouring of the English-grown with the 

 Himalayan flower, it will be seen that that of the native- 

 grown plant is very much the finest, the bands being darker, 

 more fulvous, and running more into one another, the lip 

 and petals are however broader in Messrs. Veitch's flower, 

 and rather larger. 



Dkscr. Stems one to two feet, terete, almost as thick as 

 the little finger. Leaves distichous, falcate and recurved, 

 linear-oblong, six to eight inches long, one and a quarter to 

 one and a half inches broad, rather pale green, keeled, very 

 unequally 2-lobed at the tip ; lobes rounded. Racemes 

 lateral, rather longer than the leaves, stout, 3-6 -flowered, 

 shortly peduncled. Bracts short, broad, sheathing. Ovary 

 and pedicel together one inch long. Flowers two and a half 

 inches diameter, nearly orbicular in outline. Sepals and 

 petals subequal and similar, broadly orbicular-oblong, con- 

 cave, rounded at the tip, very coriaceous, pale straw-coloured, 

 transversely streaked with innumerable wavy often confluent 

 red-brown bands. Lip smaller than the petals, very shortly 

 clawed, 3-lobed ; lateral lobes small, white with red streaks 

 at the base, subquadrate, incurved ; mid-lobe reniform, 

 margin white, obscurely crenate or crisped, centre exceed- 

 ingly thick with a crenate border, yellow ; disk of lip with 

 two erect truncate calli near the base. Column very stout, 

 white, scarlet at the tip below the yellow anther.— J. D. H. 



Kg. 1, hp ; 2, column; 3, pollinia,— all magnified; 4, fruit (copied from 

 the Illustrations of Himalayan Plants)— of the nat. size. 



