and a drawing. Since that period it has bach found in 
other localities in the Western Ghats, extending as far 
north as the Warree country. The genus is, as far as at 
present known, monotypic; for the Cottonia Championit of 
Lindley, a plant with a wide distribution, being foand in 
Kastern Bengal, Ceylon, Tenasserim and Hong Kong, 
differs so greatly in habit, foliage, inflorescence, lip and 
column, that it is strange that it should ever have been 
supposed to be congeneric. I have named this latter 
plant Diploprora (Flor. Brit. Ind. vol. v. ined.) from the 
compressed two-beaked cymbiform lip; unlike C. macro- 
stachya, it is a plant of no horticultural attractions, and it 
has not as yet been in cultivation in England. 
Cottonia macrostachya was introduced into England 
about forty years ago, and there is a figure of it in 
Paxton’s .Flower Garden; but it had long been out of 
cultivation till reintroduced of late years. 
The specimen here figured, which flowered in the Royal 
Gardens in May of last year, was received from the 
Director of the Ceylon Botanical Gardens in 1885. Mr. 
_ Watson informs me that it requires the same treatment’ . 
as the tropical Vandas, and flowers annually, the flowering 
season extending over three months.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column ;: 3, anther ; 4 and 5, pollinia «all enlarged, 
