the length and breadth of the sheath of the peduncle, being in 
all very much larger than in the Kew plant, as also in the 
amount of glandular pubescence on the ovaries and rachis ; 
all agree in stature, habit, and the complicate arcuate leaf, 
flowers, &c. The lower sheaths of the stem are remarkably 
granulate when dry in most specimens, but not in all. The 
specimen here figured flowered in Kew, in the Catleya House, 
in April, 1872. The spike resembles in colour and form that 
of Gymnadenia conopsea. 
Dzscr. Rhizome cylindric, creeping, as thick as a swan’s 
quill, hard, green, sending out stout roots, and ascending 
strong sheathed flowering branches, two to six inches long, 
bearing each a leaf and raceme of flowers; sheaths somewhat 
compressed, appressed, or slightly ventricose, brown, rigidly 
coriaceous, obtuse, older ones granulate on the surface. Lea 
about one foot long, falcate, complicate, keeled, subacute, very 
coriaceous, smooth, bright green. Peduacle three to four inches 
long, stout, green, erect, with a basal sheath, which is very 
variable in size. Spike three to five inches long, dense. Mowers 
rose-purple, one-third of an inch in diameter. Ovary slender, 
sharply angled, more or less glandular-pubescent. Sepals 
equal, broadly oblong-ovate, obtuse. Pefa/s similar or larger, 
the upper or posterior margin erose. Jip rather longer than 
the petals, very shortly clawed ; concave ; base gibbous ; lateral 
lobes short, terminal, orbicular, cup-shaped, margins of lobes 
erose. Column obscurely toothed at the tip.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, column and lip; 3, column; 4, lip :—all magnified. 
