Tas. 7268. 
MICROSTYLIS Scorn. 
Native of Pegu and the Malayan Peninsula. 
Nat. Ord. OxcuipE&. Tribe ErripenDRER. 
Genus Microstyuis, Nutt. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p. 494). 
Microstruis Scotti; foliis 2~5 sessilibus oblique ovatis acuminatis marginibus 
undulatis, supra brunneis fascia lata marginali pallida brunneo punctata, 
scapo elongato acute tetragono colorato, racemo elongato stricto multi- 
floro, bracteis lanceolatis reflexis ovarium breve subaquantibus, floribus 
arvis subsessilibus, sepalis lateralibus late oblongis marginibus recurvis, 
orsali petalisque longioribus et angustioribus, labello viridi suborbiculari, 
auriculis erectis lamin rotundate apice constrict et 2-lobe aquilongis. 
M. Scottii, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 687; et in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2001. 
When, only two years ago, I described this remarkable 
species from a drawing belonging to the Calcutta Botanical 
Gardens, and observed that it was ‘“ eminently worthy of 
cultivation,” I little anticipated being so soon able to figure 
it from living specimens grown in the Royal Gardens, 
Kew. The drawing above referred to represents a speci- 
men with the blade of the leaf of a lustrous dark bronzed 
hue, the broad dotted margin as more defined and cream- | 
coloured; the waving of the margins of the leaves as if 
they were crenated, the scape as red, and the lateral sepals 
not half the length of the dorsal and petals. There are 
also minor differences, as in the large size of the foliage of 
the Kew plant, and others which may be seen from an 
inspection of the copy in the “Icones Plantarum” of the 
Calcutta drawing, but none that militates against its 
specific identity with that from Caleutta. It must be 
borne in mind, that the latter drawing was made by a 
native artist in the Botanical Gardens, from a cultivated 
specimen ; and also that the original came from Rangoon, 
in Pegu, a widely distant locality from that of the plant 
here figured, which was sent from Singapore; the distance 
between these localities being upwards of a thousand miles. 
DecEMBER Ist, 1892, 
