in May, 1880, and it flowered in the Royal Gardens in May, 
1881. 
Desor. A small herb five to seven inches high, for the 
most part of a fine vinous purple colour. Pseudo-bulbs 
very indistinct in our specimen (‘ cylindric,” Reichb. f.). 
Leaves four to six, erecto-patent, two to three inches lon 
by one to one and a half broad, elliptic, acute, plicate along 
the three to five deeply impressed nerves, margin crisply 
undulate; sheath broad, grooved, of the same colour as 
the blade. Scape very slender, two to three inches high, 
grooved. ftaceme as long, few and distantly flowered. 
Bracts small, lanceolate, reflexed, purple. Pedicels one 
third of an inch long, slender, horizontal, decurved at the 
insertion of the ovary, which is slender, and one-sixth of 
an inch long. Flowers vertical, two-thirds of an inch broad 
across the sepals. Sepals straight, spreading, linear-oblong, 
subacute or obtuse, margins Strongly recurved. Petals 
rather longer, much narrower, acute. Inp pale purple, 
shorter than the sepals, broadly obovoid in outline, flat, 
deeply sagittate, cleft at the base, the angles acute and 
sidcs of the cleft straight ; anterior margin rounded, irregu- 
larly toothed; calli two, minute, opposite the column. 
Column very short, expanded upwards and truncate with 
acute angles; anthers nearly cireular.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front, and 2, 
i back view of flower; 3, column 3 4, anther case; 5, pollen : 
—all enlarged, 
