Royal Gardens, Kew, from those at Calcutta. It flowers 
in a stove in the month of January. 
Deser.—Whole plant eight to ten inches high. Stem as 
thick as a goose-quill, leafless below, but bearing one or 
more tubular membranous sheaths, pale green. Leaves 
two to four inches long, petioled, ovate, acuminate, dark 
green above and tessellated with nine to twelve pairs of 
longitudinal and oblique transverse blood-red nerves, 
margins blood-red, beneath rose-colrd. ; base narrowed into 
a stout, rose-colrd. deeply concave petiole. Scape with 
spike six inches long, slender, together with the bracts and 
ovaries pubescent with flaccid hairs ; sheaths few, lanceo- 
late. Spike many-fid.; bracts as long as the ovaries, 
lanceolate, pale greenish, or white suffused with rose. 
Flowers horizontally spreading, about one inch in diameter, 
pure white, with the column and anther yellow. Ovary 
sessile, two-thirds of an inch long. Sepals ovate, obtuse, 
lateral spreading; dorsal smaller, erect. Petals erect; 
coherent with the dorsal sepal, linear, falcate. Lip as 
long as the sepals, base saccate; claw broadly linear, sud- 
denly contracted into a short stipes for the limb, which 
consists of two divergent, oblong, truncate lobes; sac 
globose, two-lobed. Colwmn stout, tip turned to one side ; 
rostellum forked. Anther lanceolate, beaked. Pollinia 
narrowly clavate, of about six rows of flattened granules, 
stalked ; stalks inserted on an oblong gland.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2 and 3, column and lip viewed from opposite sides, show- 
mill anleeed. the top of the column ; 4, rostellam and anther; 5 pollinia: 
