(t. 7229), CO. Collettii, Hemsl. (t. 7198), C. Hookeri, Duthie 
(t. 7869), C. Curtisti, Hook. f. (t. 7554), and C. robustum, 
Rolfe (t. 7557). 
C. breviscapum is a native of Perak, and a plant of 
it, presented to Kew, in 1903, by Mr. F. W. Moore, 
A.L.8., Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 
flowered in a tropical house in March last. The three 
other Indian species having one-flowered scapes are 
C. merguense, Hook. f., C. lasiochilum, Hook. f., and 
C. appendiculatum, Rolfe. 
Deser—An epiphytic herb with creeping rhizomes 
covered with imbricating sheaths. Bulbs oblong, tetra- 
gonal, eight to ten lines long, one-leaved, with a pair 
of loose ovate sheaths at the base about half as long as 
the bulb. Leaves subsessile, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or 
obscurely bidentate, coriaceous, light green, one to two 
inches long. Scapes erect, about one inch and a half high, 
light green marked with red-brown, one-flowered. Pract 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, about two lines long. flowers 
rather large, the dorsal sepal and petals dull purple, the 
lateral sepals yellow spotted with red-brown, and the lip 
rose-purple. Dorsal sepal lanceolate-oblong, acute, in- 
curved, concave, not fringed, about eight or nine lines 
long; lateral sepals free, except at the base, oblong, sub- 
obtuse, recurved, somewhat twisted, about an inch long. 
Petals lanceolate, acute, spreading, about as long as the 
dorsal sepal. Lip fleshy, about four lines long, broadly 
cordate at the base, rapidly narrowing to the middle, and 
prolonged in front into an oblong, obtuse lobe, all but the 
front lobe covered with long spreading purple hairs. 
Column very broad at the base, narrowing upwards, about 
three lines long, with a pair of slender curved teeth at the 
apex, prolonged into a narrow incurved foot at the base ; 
anther-case puberulous.—R. A. Rowre. ' 
Fig. 1, flower with sepals and petals removed; 2, lip; 3, anther-case, seen 
from the side ; 4, pollinia :—all much enlarged. 
