Tas. 7521. 
HEMIPILIA ameruystina. 
Native of Burma. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuipEa.—Tribe OPuRYDEX. 
Genus Hemrritia, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 628.) 
HeEmIPILia amethystina; folio sessili terree appresso ovato-cordato sabacuto 
apice decurvo pallide flavo-viridi maculis pallide brunneis submarmorato, 
scapo gracili vaginis 2 linearibus instructo rachique racemi viridibus 
fusco-rubro punctulatis, racemo laxo multifloro, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis 
ovariis squilongis brevioribusve, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis 
viridibus, petalis oblongis apicibus rotundatis amethystinis, labello 
obovato apice dilatato breviter 4-lobo marginibus undulatis albis, disco 
amethystino basin versus puberulo breviter bicarinato, calcare sepalis 
zequilongo corniformi obtuso compresso, columna, brevi, rostello porrecto 
trulleformi recurvo, staminodiis glandulaformibus, polliniis dorso infra 
medium alatis, : : 
H. amethystina, Rolfe in Herb. Kew. 
Only three species of Hemipilia have hitherto been 
recorded, H. cordifolia, Lindl., of the Western Himalaya, 
H. flabellata, Franch. and Sav., H. Henryi, Reichb. f., both 
of Western China, and H. calophylla, Parish and Reichb. f. 
(see Tab. 6920) a native of Moulmein. From the first 
of these H. amethystina differs in the shape of the lateral 
sepals and lip, and in the longer spur; and from H. calo- 
phylla in the broad, deeply cordate leaf, stouter scape, 
many-fid. raceme, and smaller flowers. 
Mr. Rolfe informs me that H. amethystina was intro- 
duced with Cypripedium Charlesworthii, from the Shan 
States of Eastern Burma, by Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., 
of Southgate, to whom the Royal Gardens, Kew, are 
indebted for the specimen here figured, which flowered in 
June of the present year in a stove. 
Descr.—Glabrous. Leaf four by two and a half inches, 
ovate, subacute, deeply cordate, horizontal, appressed to 
the ground, seven-nerved, pale yellow-green, blotched or 
almost marbled with pale brown irregular spots, tip de- 
curved. Scape with the raceme eight inches long, slender, 
dark green speckled and streaked with red-brown ; sheaths 
Fesrvuary Ist, 1897. 
