Sir Joseph Hooker. In their account of the Orchids of 
the Sikkim Himalaya, Sir George King and Mr. Pantling 
have advanced reasons of some weight in favour of the 
reunion of these two genera and the inclusion with them 
of Lindley’s genus Haemaria, but this course, if adopted, 
involves so much rearrangement that it appears prefer- 
able in this work to follow the generic limitation 
accepted by Bentham in the “Genera Plantarum.” 
Though so long known from dried specimens, this species 
is of very recent introduction to European horticulture. 
It flowered in September, 1915, among the terrestrial 
orchids in the collection of Mr. H. J. Elwes, at Coles- 
borne, Cheltenham, and our figure has been prepared 
from a plant in flower sent by him to Kew for identi- 
fication and for inclusion in the orchid collection at Kew. 
It flowered, Mr. Elwes informs us, in a damp and shady 
intermediate house in which it had thriven well. The 
flowers are light green with a brown patch at the tip of 
the dorsal sepal; the lip, however, is bright yellow and 
the anther is pink. The leaves are green with three 
bright stripes. The plant figured was received from 
Sikkim, where it had been collected by Mr. G. H. Cave, 
Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling. : 
« 
Descriprion.—Herb, terrestrial, 8-12 in. high. Stem creeping at the base, 
erect above, rather slender, purple. Leaves petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
tip subacute and recurved, plicate, membranous, green with 3 white longitudinal 
stripes, 1-8 in. long, 1-11 in. across ; petiole }~8 in. long, the base dilated, 
stem-clasping. Scape erect, 2-5 in. long ; raceme rather dense, many-flowered ; 
rachis pubescent; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, }-? in. long; 
pedicels about 4 in. long, Flowers medium-sized, green, with a yellow lip. 
Sepals: posterior ovate, obtuse, gibbously concave at the base, 3 in. long; 
lateral wide elliptic, somewhat obtuse, concave, saccate at the base, 3-2 in. 
long. Petals cohering with the posterior sepal in a concave hood; widely and 
obliquely ovate, rather obtuse, 2 in, long, } in. wide. Lip broadly clawed, | 
about 4 in. long, 2-gibbous at the base; the sac with an oblong process inside ; 
claw fimbriately appendaged ; limb with 2 spreading, oblong, obliquely truncate 
terminal lobes } in, long. Colwmn broad, about 1 in. long, its sides 2-auricled ; 
pollinia 2, narrow obovoid, produced at the base into a somewhat elongated 
caudicle ; gland oblong ; stigmas 2, lateral. 
.«_48. 8753.—Fig. 1, flower seen from in front; 2, the same, seen from one 
side; 8, a petal; 4, column with base of the lip, showing the short sac; 
5, column, showing the pollinia, the two lateral stigmas, and the appendages: 
—all enlarged, 
