F.L.S., of the Education department of India, whilst 
attached to a mission engaged on the boundary survey of 
the kingdom of Munipore, on the eastern frontier of British 
India, a country previously quite unknown botanically. It 
flowered in October, 1882, soon after arrival. 
Drsor. Stems tufted, a foot and upwards long, rather 
slender; internodes one to one and a half inch long, 
cylindric, grooved when dry. Sheaths as long as the 
internodes, very sparsely clothed with a short furfuraceous 
black pubescence. Leaves alternate, three inches long, 
narrowly oblong, dull green, nearly flat, tip minutely 
notched; blade sessile on the sheath. lowers shortly 
pedicelled towards the ends of leafless stems, single or in 
pairs, two inches in diameter, pure white with golden 
streaks on the lip. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
spreading. Petals as long as the sepals, rather broader, 
elliptic, acute. Lip as long as the petals, convolute, 
cuneate when spread open with rounded rather crisped 
lateral lobes, and an oblong two-lobed small narrow mid- 
lobe ; veins papillose ; spur three-quarters of an inch long, 
straight, stout, obtuse, greenish at the tip. Column stout, 
tip three-fid, lateral teeth ovate acute, dorsal narrower 
and longer. Anthers puberulous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column ; 2, front view of apex of ditto; 3, anther-case; 4, undeveloped 
pollinia :—all enlarged, 
