Tas. 7964, 
SPATHOGLOTTIS Harpinctana. 
| Native of North Burma, 
Nat. Ord. Orcurpacta,—Tribe EripenpRem.. 
Genus Spatuoatortis, Blume ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 511.) 
/ 
Sratnociortis Hardingiana; inter species hucusque cognitas labello lineari 
lobis lateralibus destituto distincta; pseudobulbis late conico-ovoideis ob- 
scure multi-angulatis 6-8 lin. longis bi- vel trifoliatis squamis membranaceis 
duplo longioribus instructis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis basi breviter 
petiolatis 5-7 poll. longis medio ad 1 poll. latis plicatis membranaceis 
circiter 5-7-nerviis nervis secundariis numerosis, scapis basilaribus soli- 
tariis vel binis erectis 3-1} ped. altis ut pedicellis pubescentibus, floribus 
numerosis roseo-purpureis vel interdum lilacinis, pedicellis gracilibus 
cum ovario 10-14 lin. longis, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis 3-5 lin. 
longis, sepalis lanceolatis subacutis recurvis 6-7 lin. longis, petalis lineari- 
-lanceolatis acutis recurvis 6-7 lin. longis, labello oblongo-lineari sub- 
acuto 4-5 lin. longo basi auriculis parvis suberectis instructis, medio 
bicalloso, callis erectis cuneato-obovatis flavis brunneo-punctatis, columna 
gracili arcuata 5 lin. longa supra medium anguste alata. 
S. Hardingiana, Par. et Rehb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 45; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vol. v. p. 815. Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxii. pp. 217, 312. 
—Semper sphalmate Handingiana. Parish’s Drawings in bibl. Kew. 
vol. i.n. 79. Orch. Rev, vol. xi. (1903), p. 349. 
Spathoglottis Hardingiana is a remarkable species, 
described in 1878, and dedicated to Mr. Coles-Harding 
(misspelt Handing), a skilful cultivator of Orchids, who 
resided for some time in Moulmein. He obtained it from 
Bhamo. For a long period it was only known from the 
original specimens and drawing, but at length it was 
rediscovered in the Lankawi Islands, on the western side 
of the Malay Peninsula, by Mr. C. Curtis, Assistant 
Superintendent of Forests, Penang. It is recorded as 
growing on rocks. ‘The plant here figured is from a 
later importation, received from Mr. Curtis in 1902. It 
flowered the following autumn, in a tropical house, and 
again in November last. There were two varieties, one 
haying bright rose-purple flowers, and the other very pale 
lilac. Of the latter a single flower is shown, fig. 4. It is 
quite an anomalous species, differing from all others in 
having the side lobes of the lip reduced to a pair of very 
JuLy Ist, 1904. 
