from Tillicherry in Coorg (Jerdon’s habitat), which flowered 
in the garden of the Right Honourable Lady Ashburton. 
The specimen here figured was presented by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bt., to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it 
flowered in 18.9, and continued in flower for nearly a 
month. 
_ Descr.—Stems ten to twelve inches high, fastigiate, 
simple, rather flexuous, internodes_about an inch long, and 
one-sixth of an inch in diameter, cylindric, grooved, not 
swollen in the middle, clothed with sheaths that are 
hispidulous with dark brown hairs. Leaves sub-distichous, 
spreading and recurved, two to two and half inches long, 
linear-oblong, two-toothed at the tip, coriaceous, yellowish- 
green. Flowers large, in few-flowered short, sessile, sub- 
erect racemes from the uppermost leaf-axils; rhachis of 
raceme very short, green; bracts minute, obtuse, green ; 
pedicels very slender, with the ovary about an inch and a 
half long, orange-yellow. Sepals and petals all alike, rather 
longer than the pedicels, erect and recurved, narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, tips obtuse. Mentum a quarter of an 
inch long, truncate. Jip rather shorter than the sepals, 
and of the same colour, erect and incurved; lateral lobes 
short, rather narrow, notched, or two-lobed at the anterior 
margin; epichile narrowly tongue-shaped, obtuse, margins 
deeply sinuously crenate, almost lobulate; disk with three 
acute keels, of which the median is crenate on the epichile. 
Column long for the genus. Anther tumid, anterior margins 
ciliate.—J, D. H. | 
Fig. 1, lip with one lateral lobe removed; 2, column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia: 
—All enlarged. 
