Lynch sent flowering specimens from Cambridge in April, 

 without any information of their origin. It is one of the 

 most graceful species of the genus, and merits attention 

 where the larger, more showy ones would be out of place. 

 There are several Japanese, not specially localized speci- 

 mens in the Kew Herbarium, including one of Gray's type ; 

 but there is a note that the species grows in humid 

 situations. 



Descr. — A tufted, slender herb, six to twelve inches 

 high, with a slender, branching rootstock. Stems of two 

 kinds, flowerless and flowering ; the former very short, 

 and bearing from three to five narrow, thin leaves, six to 

 twelve inches long, very acute, six-nerved, with secondary, 

 thinner nerves. Scapes or flowering stems about the same 

 height, bearing two or three short leaves, and about the 

 same number of flowers. Spathes one-flowered, on very 

 slender peduncles. Flowers sessile, erect, purple or lilac, 

 about two inches in diameter. Falls oblong, notched at 

 the tip, recurved, white in the middle, striped with purple, 

 and yellow-crested. Standards smaller, self-coloured. 

 Style-crests of the same colour, irregularly fringe-toothed. — 

 W. B. H. 



Figs. 1 and 2, ventral and dorsal views of an anther ; 3, a style-crest : — all 

 enlarged. 



