altitude. The plants figured were presented by Messrs. 
Sander & Sons, St. Albans, in 1899, and they flower 
annually in a cool orchid house, from February to about 
April, the flowers lasting about two months. Grouped in 
pans, this little terrestrial orchid is very pretty. 
Descr.—A dwarf terrestrial herb, bearing ovoid or 
fusiform subterranean tubers from about half to an inch 
long. Stems very short, rather stout, bearing one fully 
developed leaf, and one or two loose tubular sheaths, the 
upper having occasionally a short, free limb. Leaf ovate- 
oblong, usually shortly acuminate, suberect, membrana- 
ceous, about two to three inches long. Scape solitary, 
erect, four to seven inches high; raceme many-flowered. 
Flowers white, disc of the lip spotted with red. Bracts 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, two to six lines . 
long. Pedicels four to nine lines long. Dorsal sepal 
erect, ovate, obtuse, two lines long; lateral sepals spread- 
ing, oblique, ovate, obtuse, two and a half lines long. 
Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly oblique, two lines 
long. Jip spreading, three-lobed, four to five lines long ; 
lobes obovately orbicular, somewhat crenulate; disc bear- : 
ing a pair of longitudinal thin ridges; spur clavate, 
somewhat curved, a line and a half long. Colwmn very 
short.—R. A. Rotrs. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, column seen from the side and front; 4, a 
polliniam :—all much enlarged. 
