be added the long slender scape, different coloration of the 
leaves, which are spotted with oblong white blotches, whose 
axis is parallel to the length of the leaf; and lastly the striking 
difference in the colour of the flowers. 
C. niveum is a native of the Tambelan Islands, a small 
group midway between Singapore and the coast of Borneo ; 
whence, Mr. Bullinforms me, he first imported it in 1870; 
adding, that he had since received it from the West Coast of 
Siam. The beautiful specimen here figured flowered in his 
nursery in June of the present year. 
Descr. Stemless ; leaves beneath, scape, and ovary of a dark 
lurid purple colour. eaves coriaceous, four to six inches 
long, distichous, bases closely imbricating, acute or notched 
at the tip, keeled, dark dull green above, with oblong 
greenish-white spots. Scapes several, six inches high, strict, 
slender; bracts two, sheathing the base of the ovary, one- 
half to three-quarters of an inch Jong, oblong, obtuse, purple 
with yellow edges. Ovary two inches long, slender, pubes- 
cent. lowers three to three and a half inches in diameter, 
snow-white. Dorsal sepal orbicular, cuspidate, streaked with 
scarlet at the back; two lateral combined into one ovate 
notched blade placed under the lip and smaller than it. 
Petals spreading, slightly deflexed, broadly oblong, rounded 
at the tip, distinctly spotted with red-purple from the base to 
the middle. zp one inch long, pure white, exactly ovoid, 
with a contracted mouth. Staminode transversely oblong, 
apiculate, white, with an irregular yellow disk.—/J. D. H. 
