which Lindley proposed (Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. (1849) 262 ; 
Pazxt. Mag. Bot. xvi. 321, with fig.) for the plant described 
by Blume. 
D. paludosum is a native of marshes in the Malayan 
Peninsula. There are specimens of it in the Kew 
Herbarium from Griffith, who was its discoverer (in or 
about 1841), and Perak ones from Wray. Griffith found 
it growing in similar localities to those frequented by 
several species of Nepenthes, Hypericum and Lycopodium 
cernuum. 
The specimen here figured was sent in 1893 from the — 
Royal Gardens of Glasnevin, Dublin, by their keeper, 
F. W. Moore, A.L.S., to Kew, where it flowered in July, 
1895, in a stove. 
Deser.—Whole plant two to three feet high. Stem 
erect, rooting at the base, stout, simple or sparingly 
branched, densely leafy. Leaves strict, erecto-patent, ten 
to twelve inches long, by an inch broad, ensiform, sub- 
acute, distichous, coriaceous, channelled above, keeled 
beneath, bright green, margins recurved, articulate upon 
the short green sheath which is very strongly ribbed. 
Scape axillary, twelve to sixteen inches long with the 
raceme which occupies half its length, erect, terete, 
smooth, green; sheaths appressed. Flowers loosely 
racemed ; bracts very small, ovate, brown. Peduncle with 
ovary about an inch long, white, spreading. Perianth 
two inches in diameter, very pale straw colour, or nearly ~ 
white, with small purple blotches in the backs of the . 
sepals and petals, which are faintly seen-in front. Sepals — 
and petals similar, linear-oblong, spreading and recurved, 
subacute, rather fleshy. Lip as long as the petals, elon- 
gate cymbiform, two-toothed at the base (the teeth repre- 
sent lateral lobes); tip acuminate, recurved; base within 
and margins broadly villous, dorsally glabrous, with rows 
of purple blotches. Column very short and stout, pubes- 
cent in the deeply concave front. Anther small. Pollinia 
oblong, each seated on a rather stout pedicel, which is 
prolonged into a dorsal spur, and at the base is inserted — 
on a large orbicular gland.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2 
, column; 3 and 4, pollinia :—all enlarged; 5, reduced view — 
of whole plant. 
