its original introduction is uncertain. It seems to have 
been added to the collection of the late Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Burford, Dorking, in or before 1898; in 
November of that year it was submitted by him to Kew 
for identification, with a note that it has been bought 
from the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild 
at Tring, but that its native habitat was unknown. 
This plant, which flowers regularly each autumn, was pre- 
sented to the Kew collection by the late Lady Lawrence ; 
our plate was prepared from it when in flower in 
November, 1915. 
Description.—Herb, epiphytic ; rootstock creeping, rather stout and woody; 
udobulbs rather close-set, ovoid or at times oblong, 1-2 in. long, clothed 
low with membranous sheaths, 1-foliate. Leaves very shortly petioled, 
oblong, rather blunt, fairly thick, 5-8 in. long, 1-1} in. wide. Scapes arcuate, 
in. long, clothed below with membranous sheaths; racemes cylindric, 
dense-flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, actite or acuminate, 3-3 in. long. 
Flowers rather small, lilac with purple blotches. Sepals: posterior elliptic- 
ovate, tip acute and recurved, } in. long ; lateral connate, ovate, acute, concave, 
over j in. long. Petals ovate, acuminate, ys in. long. Lip clawed, elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse, rather thick, 7 in. long, with a finely 2-keeled disk, and with 
falcate-ovate rather blunt auricles. Column broad, ; in. long; teeth subulate. 
Tas. 8723.—Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same, the sepals removed ; 3, lip; 
4, column; 5, anthercap; 6, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
