duced from the Malayan peninsula, which is now being opened 

 up to travellers, and is still one of the richest, as it is the 

 most accessible, field for tropical horticultural novelties. 



Desce. Pseudobulbs as large as and of the shape of a small 

 onion. Leaves tufted, a foot long, narrowly lanceolate, 

 gradually finely acuminate, plaited with about twelve nerves. 

 Scape slender, rather exceeding the leaves, glabrous below, 

 pubescent above ; sheaths appressed. Raceme subcorymbose ; 

 bracts deciduous, rhombic-ovate, acute ; pedicels and ovary 

 pubescent, together one inch long and upwards, red. Flowers 

 one and a half inch in diameter, pale lilac,' or rose-lilac. 

 Sepals oblong-ovate, subacute. Petals broader than the 

 sepals, almost orbicular, obtuse and apiculate. Lip about 

 half the size of the petals; lateral lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 incurved, darker purple within ; terminal lobe transversely 

 oblong, apiculate, pale blue, like the petals ; disk with one 

 obtuse ridge down the centre, and between the lateral lobes 

 is a heart-shaped villous yellow callus. Column slender, 

 purple. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower, with sepals and petals removed ; 2, column ; 3, lip :— all enlarged. 



