by the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Lewis & Co., 
Southgate, in 1893. It flowers annually in the Orchid 
House in July, where it is treated with tropical Ha- 
benarias., 
Descr.—Stem up to two feet, attaining a thickness of 
a swan’s quill, and as well as all green parts streaked 
with blood-red in broken lines. Leaves a foot long and 
more, about half an inch broad, linear, or narrowly linear- 
lanceolate, finely acuminate, narrowed from the middle to 
the base and apex, dorsally keeled. Pedunele stout, erect, 
two or more-fid. Bracts two to three inches long, tubular, 
with a lanceolate, acuminate tip. Ovary with pedicel three 
to four inches long, strict, erect, puberulous. Flower one 
and a half to one and three-quarters in. broad. Sepals 
oblong, obtuse, green without and blotched with red. 
Petals erect, forming a hood with the dorsal sepal. Petals 
linear-oblong, obtuse, subfaleate, gibbous on one side,’ 
white. ip longer than the sepals, bright purple, base 
connate with the sides of the column ; lateral lobes large, 
broadly cuneate ; midlobe cleft to the base into two linear, 
obtuse, divaricating sezments; spur one and a half to one 
and three-quarter inch long, stout, strict, pale, lower half 
somewhat inflated, tip 2-lobed. Column with a bifid, 
puberulous rostellum.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Petal; 2, column with base of lip and Lip of s —F 3, column 
in front; 4, pollinium :—AJ/ enlarged. “i 2 : aieoee 
