in the province of Yunnan, at 6,000 to 7,000 feet elevation, 
in March, 1895, and Dr. Augustine Henry, F.L.S., shortly 
afterwards collected it in the same district, but at a slightly 
lower elevation. Its introduction to cultivation came from 
another source. At the Royal Horticultural Society in 
February last a pan of several plants was exhibited by 
Messrs. Sutton & Sons, of Reading, as ‘“ Orchid species 
from China,” which I immediately recognized as a species 
already described from dried specimens. Shortly after- 
wards they forwarded flowers to Kew from which this 
plate was prepared, the leaves, which appear later, being 
added afterwards. Unlike several of those above men- 
tioned, it is not an autumn-flowering species. Messrs. 
Sutton received the bulbs from a correspondent in China 
some years ago, but, having mislaid his address, cannot 
trace its exact source. It is a very charming little plant. 
Descr.—A terrestrial herb, with ovoid-globose, shining, 
one-leaved bulbs, about an inch broad. Leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute, plicate, membranous, about a foot long 
by an inch and three-quarters broad, with an oblong, 
spathaceous, basal sheath. Scapes erect, about six inches 
high, with several imbricating, spathaceous sheaths at the 
base, one-flowered. Bracts spathaceous, oblong, obtuse, 
over aninch long. Pedicels about an inch and a half long. 
Flowers large, rose-purple, with numerous dark purple | 
blotches on the lip. Sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 
somewhat obtuse, about an inch and a half long by a third 
of an inch broad. Petals rather narrower, but otherwise 
similar. Lip obovate-orbicular, fringed, about an inch 
and a quarter long, the sides incurved and convolute 
round the column; disc with five denticulate or fimbriate 
keels. Column clavate, incurved, about three-quarters of 
an inch long, winged, dilated at the apex to a quarter of 
an inch broad, wings obtuse; pollinia four, ovoid-oblong, 
affixed to a small, oblong gland at the base.—R A. Rorre. 
Fig. 1, lip with one side removed ; 2, its marginal fringes; 3, column ; 4 and 
5, pollinarium, seen from front and back :—all enlarged. 
