never resupinate, as described by Harvey, though from the 

 gibbous form of the bud they sometimes appear to be so. 



Our specimen belongs to the rich collection of my friend 

 W. Wilson Saunders, F.E.S., with wbom it flowered in 

 August of the present year. 



Descr. Boots of stout, sub-cylindric, fascicled, oblong tubers. 

 L eaves very numerous, horizontally spreading, one and a half 

 to two inches long, linear-oblong, mucronate, undulate, deep 

 green, with many black, transverse blotches disposed in two 

 or three longitudinal rows. Scape slender, erect, six to eight 

 inches high, including the long, many-flowered, erect spike ; 

 bracts on the scape few, and as well as those beneath the 

 flowers lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, green, blotched with 

 black. Flowers one-third of an inch in diam., rose-pink, with 

 a few purple blotches on the lip ; ovary half an inch long. 

 Sepals at first arched and curving, then spreading, broadly- 

 ovate, obtuse, margins finely erose. Petals rather smaller, 

 connivent, margins more deeply erose. Lip twice as long 

 as the sepals, projecting, linear or oblong-obovate in outline, 

 equally 3-fid to near the middle ; segments nearly parallel ; 

 the lateral slightly curved, acute or obtuse, outer margin 

 slightly or strongly toothed ; mid-lobe narrow, entire. Column 

 very short, obtuse, with an adnate obtuse staminode on each 

 side.— J. D. II 



Fig. 1, lateral, and 2, front view of flower; 3, column and lip; 4, lip; 

 5, front, and 6, side view of column ; 7, pollen-mass :— all magnified. 



