species of the latter genus which shows a transition to the 
former. Probably there may be other species of both 
genera showing the same characters, but until far better 
materials of both are available it would be rash to found 
sectional characters on either foliage or flowers. 
B. comosum was discovered by General Sir H. Collett, 
K.C.B. (when serving during the Burmese war), at 
Muktela, in the Shan Hills, at an elevation of six thousand 
feet, along with the beautiful Cirrhopetalum Collettii, 
figured at t. 7198. General Collett sent living plants to 
Kew in 1889, and others (I believe from the same source) 
have been received from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cal- 
cutta, in 1890. Of the latter the one here figured flowered 
in January of the present year and formed new leaves in 
the following July. 
The hairs of the sepals which were figured and described 
in the Linnzan Journal from dried specimens as unicellular, 
are multicellular, as in fig. 2 of our plate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flowers with the tips of the sepals recurved ; 2, hair from the same; 
rt pero and column ; 4, front view of column ; 5, anther ; 6, pollinia :— 
