Sikkim, its more exact locality is probably the outer 
ranges of the HimaJaya Mountains, from Sikkim east- 
wards. In the above-mentioned figure the sepals and 
petals are yellowish-green, and the red streaks are broken 
up into purple dots. In the plate given in Warner’s 
Orchid Album the leaves are broadly elliptic with rounded 
retuse tips, dark green with no yellow margin, the 
bracts are longer and the flowers much larger, of a dull 
purplish blue, the lateral sepals end in longer tails, and the 
petals have an almost black purple centre and greenish 
border ; it doubtless represents a variety. 
C. ornatissimum was received at Kew from the Royal 
Botanical Gardens of Calcutta in 1890 (under the erroneous 
name of Bulbophyllum Mannii), and flowered in the tropical 
orchid house of Kew, in September, 1891.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Dorsal sepal; 2, pales of the etals; 3, column and lip; 4, lip; 
5, anther :— all enlarged. " ‘ ee f 
