dried specimens, are very faulty, for there is no true 

 mentum ; what was taken for a mentum is the inflexed 

 narrow claw of the lip ; nor is the lip usually saccate at the 

 base, though so represented in some of the drawings, but 

 at the distal end of the hypochil, under the insertion of 

 the epichil. 



0. fuscus flowered in the Royal Gardens in May last. The 

 specimen was received in 1892 from C. Ford, Esq., F.L.S., 

 Superintendent of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens. 



Descr. — Stem ; roots very stout, vermiform. Leaves few, 

 4-6 inches long, sessile, spreading, elliptic-oblong, acute, 

 subrecurved, flat, coriaceous, bright pale green. Racemes 

 simple or branched at the base, about a foot long, arising close 

 to the bases of the leaves, pendulous, very many-flowered; 

 peduncle as thick as a duck's quill, curved, terete, with a 

 few very short broad brown sheaths ; floral bracts very 

 small, subulate, dark brown ; pedicels spreading, with the 

 slender ovary ±-1 in. long ; perianth about f of an inch 

 long from the tip of the reflexed sepals to that of the lip. 

 Sepals I in. long, spreading or reflexed, oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse, golden-yellow streaked with red. Petals like the 

 sepals, but smaller. Lip nearly as large as the rest of the 

 flower, consisting of three parts, a concave, expanded, 

 horizontal hypochil, suddenly contracted at the base into a 

 narrow geniculate claw, an erect epichil, and a rather long 

 spine beneath the latter; thehypochil.has rounded sidelobes, 

 a flat ridge crenate at the dilated base on the disk ; and at 

 the base of the epichil a flat, fimbriate flap overhangs 

 the mouth of the horn-like obtuse spur ; epichil at right 

 angles to the hypochil, its margins infolded, so as to be 

 tubular, then expanding into a broad, recurved, dark red, 

 simple or 3-lobed. fimbriate limb, the tube dorsally bears 

 an acute spur. Column very short, with a broad fimbriate 

 semi-lunar disk below the clinandrium ; top contracted ; 

 anther oblong, obtusely beaked in front ; pollinia pyriform, 

 separately sessile on a flat strap, the truncate top of which 

 is seated on a quadrate gland. — J". D. H. 



AnVa^t^t^ 2jHP; 3 > C0lamn ; 4 > a * ther ; 5and 6 ' zinnia:- 



