' Nbtulte ' it is so disfigured by misprints that no 

 dependence can be placed upon it; the sepals and petals 

 are described as light fuscous, veined with purple, and the 

 labellum as fuscous green, with purplish margins. In Griffith's 

 dried specimen the lip evidently retains the brown colour 

 of our figure, and the sepals are pale with purple streaks ; 

 however the discrepancies are to be explained; our plant 

 is unquestionably identical with Griffith's specimen, and 

 is the lone paleacea of Lindley. There are two other Mishmi 

 species of lone described by Griffith and Lindley, and there 

 is also a Sikkim one (I. cirrhata, Lindl.) found by myself, 

 which has oblong leaves, and very differently formed 

 sepals resembling the rude drawing of Griffith more than 

 that of /. paleacea. Oui> plant was received from Dr. King, 

 of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, and flowered in October 

 of last year at Kew. 



Descr. Eootstock short, creeping. Pseudobulbs one to 

 one and a half inches long, ovoid, smooth, green. Leaf six to 

 eight inches long, and one broad, linear, obtuse, narrowed 

 into a deeply channelled base, but hardly petioled, keeled, 

 dark green. Scape stiff, slender, erect, longer than the leaf; 

 its sheaths closely appressed. Spike four to five inches long, 

 many-flowered; bracts one inch long, lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, erect, concave. Flowers drooping, an inch long. 

 Sepals pale green, with red stripes; posticous lanceolate, 

 arched, lateral confluent into a 2 -toothed concave body 

 placed under the lip. Petals small, rounded, erose, pale 

 yellow-green, spreading. Lip as long as the sepals, trowel- 

 shaped, red-brown, margins erose, claw very short; disk 

 with two elevated keels at the base, which sink towards the 

 disk, and are carried along the mesial line to the tip of the 

 lip, where they end in an oblong thick calluss. Column short, 

 with 2-spurs from the anther-cells, in which the caudicles of 

 the pollen masses are lodged. — J. D. II 



Fig. 1, Flowers ; 2, column ; 3, pollen masses :—all enlarged. 



