The specimen of C. guttatum here figured was kindly 
communicated by H. J. Elwes, Hsq., F.R.S., from his 
garden at Colesborne, Gloucestershire, in June of the present 
year. Roots of it were brought by him from the Altai 
mountains in 1899, where it was growing in an almost 
impenetrable forest of Pinus Cembra, on the west shore of 
Lake Teletskoi. The specimen figured is smaller than the 
average of those in the Kew Herbarium; as in all of 
these, the leaves turn black in drying. 
Descr.—footstock creeping and rooting. Stem six to 
twelve inches high, softly pubescent with flaccid, spread- 
ing hairs. Leaves two, alternate, three to five inches long 
by two to three broad, sessile, broadly or narrowly elliptic, 
acute, or apiculate, ciliate on the margins, five- to seven- 
nerved. flowers solitary, bracteate, white blotched with 
purple, about one and a half inches long from the tip of 
the dorsal sepal to that of the lip. Bract an inch long, 
ovate-lanceolate, green, pubescent. Dorsal sepal hemi- 
spheric, lateral united into a two-toothed or bifid, narrow, 
green blade, placed under the lip, and shorter than it. 
_ Petals linear-oblong, deflexed, sigmoidly falcate. Lip about 
as large as the dorsal sepal, tumidly saccate, mouth con- 
_ tracted. Column with a large, arched, golden-yellow, 
sterile stamen, crenate at the tip; lateral arms two-lobed, 
spreading, overhanging the anthers, stigma decurved, 
stout, tip dilated, truncate.—J. D. H. ; 
___ Fig. 1, rootstock, of the natural size; 2 and 8, front and side views of the 
— column :—Enlarged. 
