and in Lower Burma at 6000 ft. by Mr. Boxall, when 
collecting for Messrs. Hugh Low and Sons of. Clapton. 
Very recently it has been described as P. roseus, under the 
misapprehension that it was an undescribed species of 
Western tropical Africa. The specimen here figured was 
presented by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Scarborough to the 
Royal Gardens in November, 1895, who collected it himself 
during his visit to India. 
Descr.—Stems two to three feet from a tuberous lobed 
base, terete, green, leafless and sheathed below, leafy 
above. Leaves six to ten inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, plicately five-nerved, margins rather waved, 
dark green aboye, paler beneath with prominent nerves ; 
Sheaths with acutely angled ribs. Scapes one or more, 
axillary from the lower leaves, one to two feet long, to- 
gether with the loose, erect raceme slender, green, with a 
few scattered appressed lanceolate sheaths towards the 
base and middle. Raceme eight- to ten-fld.; bracts about 
an inch long, as long as the slender erecto-patent pedicel and 
ovary, lanceolate, acuminate, concave, herbaceous, dark 
green, caducous. Flowers nearly two inches broad when 
expanded, pale or dark rose-colrd. ; lip paler and speckled. 
Sepals acuminate, with recurved tips, keeled, linear-oblong ; 
dorsal more oblanceolate, concave. Petals narrower than 
the sepals. Lip nearly as long as the sepals, three-lobed ; 
side lobes broad, orbicular, margins recurved, midlobe sub- 
quadrate, truncately 3-lobulate; side lobules rounded, 
median much smaller, 2-fid; disk of hp with a median 
hairy ridge; spur one half to two-thirds of an inch long, 
rather slender, incurved, yellow, tip 2-lobed. Column long, 
rather slender, the sides dilating above the middle into 
narrow wings, top 2-lobed; anther hemispheric, sparsely 
hairy.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of the lip ; 2, column and spur; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia: 
—Ali enlarged: 6, reduced figure of the whos plant. : ss — 
