around Tachienlu, at elevations between 10,000 and 12,000 
feet, and that the flowers are usually very much darker in 
a wild state than here shown. 
Notwithstanding the evident distinctness of this species 
from C. macranthon, Swartz (B. M. t. 2938), it is not easy 
to put the distinction into words, beyond the very obvious 
difference in colour and the shape of the staminode, but the 
lip of C. macranthon is corrugated round the mouth. Mr. 
Wilson, who has collected both species and seen them 
growing in enormous quantities, states that they are very 
distinct, both geographically, and in their morphological 
characters. The difficulty is that some of these characters 
become obliterated in the process of drying for the 
Herbarium. 
The species will doubtless succeed under similar cultural 
treatment to that given to C. macranthon. 
Descr.—A terrestrial herb from ahout half to a foot and 
a quarter high. Stems erect, pubescent, bearing three to 
four leaves, and at the base two or three reduced more or 
less tubular sheaths. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, acute 
or subobtuse, membranaceous, plicate, puberulous, and 
ciliate, subsessile, two to five inches long, three-quarters 
to two and three-quarter inches broad. SBracts ovate, 
acute, or acuminate, concave, more or less leaf-like, an 
inch and a half to three inches long. Flowers solitary, 
terminal, nearly four inches across, striped and reticulated — 
with reddish purple on a paler ground, staminode and 
front of lip suffused with dark purple. Dorsal sepal 
broadly ovate, acute, concave, one and a quarter to one 
and three-quarter inches long; lower sepal rather smaller. 
Petals elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, an inch 
and a half to two inches long. Lip ventricose, globose, 
an inch and a quarter to two inches long; mouth semi- 
circular. Colwmn three-quarters of an inch long; stami- — 
node broadly ovate, obtuse, convex, about half an inch 
long.—R. A. Rove. 
Fig. 1, vertical section of lip; 2 and 3, column seen from the front and 
side, showing the staminode, stamens and stigma :—2, natural size, the rest 
magnified, 
