Jaintea and Khasia Hills in the east. The plant appears 
to have been first met with by Wallich near Khatmandu in 
1819, and was described from Wallich’s material independ- 
ently by Lindley in 1821 and by D. Don in 1825. The 
species was introduced to cultivation by Mr. Gibson in 1837; 
the first plant to flower in England did so early in 1841 in 
the collection of Mr. G. Barker of Springfield, Birmingham. 
As might be anticipated in a species with so wide a range, C. 
cristata varies somewhat; two of the most beautiful varieties 
known in collections are Lemoniana, which appeared many 
years ago in the collection of Sir Charles Lemon, at Carclew 
near Falmouth, and alba, which appeared first in the collection © 
of Mr. T. A. Titley, Leeds; a third very striking variety is 
that known as mazima, introduced by Messrs, Sander and 
Sons, St. Albans. In Sir ©. Lemon’s variety the hairs on 
the lip are light citron-yellow in place of orange; in that 
of Mr. Titley the flowers are pure white throughout. The 
variety imported by Messrs. Sander has larger flowers with 
petals and sepals of firmer texture than in the type. 
Description.—Herb, epiphytic ; rhizome stout, creeping, 
clothed with many imbricate sheaths; pseudobulbs some- 
what separated, ovate-ellipsoid, ultimately longitudinally 
wrinkled, 13-24 in. long, 2-foliate. Leaves lanceolate, 
acuminate, somewhat plicate, distinctly 3-nerved, narrowed 
to the base and sometimes shortly petioled, 5-12 in. long, 
I in. wide. Scapes basal, 6-8 in. long, curved, clothed 
below with imbricate sheaths ; racemes 5—7 -flowered ; bracts 
spreading, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 13-2 in, long; pedicels 
14-14 in. long. | Flowers showy, white, the lip usually with 
yellow crests, Sepals and petals spreading, subequal, oblong, 
somewhat blunt, undulate, about 2 in. long. Lip 3-lobed, 
about 1} in. long; lateral lobes oblong, obtuse, embracing 
base of column, somewhat reflexed at the tip; mid-lobe 
suborbicular or wide rhomboid-ovate, blunt, 3-1 in. wide; 
disk 5-crested ; crests shallow, breaking up into long pro-= 
cesses and continued beyond the isthmus as a short triangular 
crenate lamina, Column clavate, wide-win ged from a narrow 
base, about 1} in. long. Pollinia 4, oblong, compressed, 
cohering at the tip in a granular body. 
Fig. 1, lip; 2, column; 8, pollinia :—all enlarged, 
