Panyang on the coast of Malacca). It flowered in a stove 
of the Royal Gardens in December, 1896. 
Descr.—Rhizome flexuous, about one-eighth of an inch 
in diameter, clothed with appressed brown scales. Pseudo- 
bulbs about an inch apart, two-thirds of an inch long, 
ovoid, green, clothed with brown sheaths. Leaf four to 
four and a half inches long, by nearly an inch broad, 
linear-oblong, tip subacute recurved, very coriaceous, 
yellowish green on both surfaces, midrib sunk above, 
hardly keeled beneath, Scapes solitary from the base of 
the pseudobulbs, three to four inches long, very slender, 
decurved, pale green, with a few small scattered sheaths 
tipped with brown below the middle. Flowers numerous, 
in a crowded umbel, hardly half an inch long, dorsal sepal 
and petals bright rose-colrd., lateral sepals paler, fading 
into white beyond the middle; lip bright yellow. Dorsal 
sepals and petals very small, of nearly equal size, sub- 
orbicular, long-ciliate, tip of dorsal sepal long-awned, awn 
ciliate, about one-third of an inch long. Lateral sepals 
linear-oblong, obtuse, coherent from beyond the base into 
a very convex, broadly oblong, recurved blade, notched at 
the rounded tip. Lip ovate-oblong, recurved, grooved 
down the centre. Column truncate, tip obscurely 
lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower seen in front ; 2, the same from the side; 3, petal; 4, column 
and lip; 5, anther ; 6, pollinia :—AJI enlarged. 
