geographical position, far from the haunts of systematic 
botanists, and by the sagacity of those orchidologists 
(Lindley and Bolus) who have devoted themselves to its 
study. 
A the species here represented there is a remarkable 
deviation in the structure of the petals from any other that 
I find described, and that is in the erect linear concave 
appendages or horns, which, arising from below their tips, 
at the back of the anther, cross one another over the top of 
the latter. These did not escape Lindley’s observation, 
who introduces them into the specific character. 
D. incarnata is a native of Madagascar, where it was 
found some seventy years ago by Mr. Lyall, a correspondent 
of Sir W. J. Hooker, and more recently in 1881 by 
Hildebrandt, in the Ankarsatra mountains, in the centre of 
a oa and at Arevommamo by G. F. Scott Elliott in 
_ It was introduced into cultivation by Messrs. W. L. 
Lewis and Co., of Southgate, who exhibited it at the 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society in April last, 
and: to whom the Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted for 
the specimen here figured. With regard to the coiour of 
the flower, Lindley is the authority for the name incarnata, 
relying on the MSS. name Habenaria incarnata of Mr. 
Lyall, which was, however, attached to that collector’s 
Specimens of Bonatea incarnata, and not to those of the 
Disa. Hildebrandt describes the flower as cinnabar 
coloured, They probably vary much.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1, Dorsal 
sepal; 2, fi : 
4, anther and stig P ower with the se 
aoe pals removed: 3, petals; 
ma; 5, pollinium :—aJl enlarged. ; 
