between 19° and 22° N. Lat., temperate types appear in 

 abundance at four thousand feet. 



The resemblance of I. Collettii to I. nepalensis is so 

 strong that I can well understand it being regarded as a 

 variety of that plant. Its distinguishing characters are 

 the dwarf habit (persistent under cultivation), earlier 

 leafing, small flowers, very short perianth-tube, sub-equal 

 segments all spreading and recurved, beardless crest, and 

 comparatively large stigmatic crests, which are bipartite, 

 with dimidiate-ovate, quite entire segments. The specimen 

 figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. 

 Hildebrand, C.I.E., Superintendent of the Shan States in 

 Burma, where it flowered in a greenhouse in April, 1902. 

 The flowers were faintly fragrant. Plants of it were 

 subsequently planted in a border in the open air, where 

 they all died. 



JJescr. — Roots of very many, crowded, large, equal, 

 vermiform, brown tubers several inches long, and a 

 quarter of an inch in diameter. Leaves narrowly ensiform, 

 strongly nerved, dark green, bases surrounded" with rigid 

 brown fibres. Flowering stems about six inches high, one- 

 to two-flowered. Spathes one and a half to two inches 

 long, narrow, acuminate, herbaceous, green. Perianth- 

 tube short ; limb an inch and a half in diameter ; segments 

 sub-equal, spreading, and revolute, violet-blue, streaked 

 with white towards the base; crest of outer bright 

 orange-yellow, not bearded. Stigmatic crests large, erect, 

 bipartite; segments dimidiate-ovate, acute, quite entire. — 



Figa. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, stigmatic crest :— all enlarged. 



