that it was a great favourite with the Burmese girls to 
put in their hair, as it is pleasantly fragrant, like new- 
made hay. He adds that he had found a golden-coloured 
variety in the mountains. Parish does not take up the 
name B. fonisecii, credited to him by Reichenbach in the 
place cited above, and it has not been found in his manu- 
scripts at Kew; but there is no doubt of its identity with 
B. auricomum, Lind), Reichenbach drew up his description 
from a plant introduced and cultivated by Messrs. Low & 
Co. 
Since Miss Smith’s drawing was lithographed we have 
found another in the Kew Collection, made by W. H. 
Fitch in 1871, from a plant cultivated by Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons. It is endorsed: * Buller, Stevens’s sale, — 
1849.” Fitch’s drawing represents a more robust con- 
dition of the plant. 
B. suavissimum, Rolfe (Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 297) 
is a closely allied species from Upper Burma, which Mr. 
Rolfe thinks may be the plant regarded by Parish as a 
yellow variety of B. auricomum. : 
Descr.—A rhizomatous, pseudobulbous herb, less than a 
foot high. Rhizomes creeping, short-jointed, about a 
quarter of an inch thick, clothed with short, brown, closely 
imbricated scales. Pseudobulbs clustered, three-quarters 
to one and a quarter inch long, narrow-ovoid or oblong, 
leafless when the flowers are produced. Leaves usually 
two in the formation of each succeeding pseudobulb, 
oblong, obtuse, about four inches long, deciduous. Scapes 
solitary from the base of the leafless pseudobulbs, very 
slender, four to ten inches long, recurved from above the 
middle, about two-thirds floriferous. Bracts minute, per- 
sistent. lowers very fragrant, numerous, nearly sessile, 
nodding, white, with an orange labellum. Sepals linear- 
Janceolate, acuminate, about three-quarters of an inch 
long, tbree-nerved. Petals small, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
1-nerved, ciliate. Lip tongue-shaped, somewhat longer 
than the petals, hinged at the base and motile, arched, 
papillose on the upper surface. Column short, truncate. 
Anther mitre-shaped, puberulous at the top.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1,a flower from which the sepals have been retaoved ; 2, the same 
from which the petals have also been removed; 3, anther-cap; 4, pollen:— 
all enlarged. 
