Tas. 5904, 
DRYMODA picta. 
Native of Moulmein. 
Nat. Ord. Orcuipem.—Tribe VANDER? 
Genus Drymopa, Lindl. (Sert. Orchid. t. 8 C.). 
Drrmopa picta ; aphylla, pseudobulbis depresso-planis orbiculatis cortice, 
appressis, scapo solitario 1-flore filiformi basin versus squamis 2 
hyalinis instructo. 
Drymopa picta, Lindl. lc. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 467. 
One of the smallest and most curious of Orchids, hitherto 
only known from a drawing made by the late William 
Griffith in Mergui in the Malayan peninsula, in 183 a, and 
forwarded by him to Dr. Lindley, who published it in his 
magnificent ‘“Sertum Orchidaceum,” in 1838, whence the 
description was copied into Walper’s Annalen, as quoted above. 
I have in vain sought amongst Griffith’s published posthumous 
papers for any notice of this plant, as also amongst his draw- 
ings and MSS., which are preserved in the library at Kew. 
His original sketch, accompanied by his specimens, is in 
Dr. Lindley’s Orchid collection, also now at Kew; but I 
found no specimens amongst Griffith’s general collections 
which have been incorporated with the Kew Herbarium. 
This however is easily accounted for by the fact, that many 
of the Griffithian collections, and especially the Burmese, 
were destroyed by damp and vermin in the cellars of the old 
India House, where they lay in open chests for many years 
before being transferred to Kew. 
The specimen of Drymoda here figured formed part of a 
JUNE Ist, 1871. 
