solitary leaves, larger, glabrous flowers and a long spur. 

 The plant figured flowered in a stove of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, in September, 1901. 



Descr. — Roots of fleshy fibres covered with black bairs. 

 Stem very short, clothed with orbicular sheaths. Leaves 

 few, spreading, four to eight inches long, elliptic- or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flat, many-nerved, 

 margins undulate. Scape eight to ten inches long, erect, 

 green, glandular-villous ; sheaths few, ovate-lanceolate. 

 Raceme spiciform, three to four inches long, oblong, 

 cylindric, dense-fld. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, and ovary 

 glandular-villous; pedicels about half an inch long. 

 Perianth rose-purple, about half an inch long, deflexed ; 

 sepals and petals connivent. Sepals glandular-villous, 

 ovate-oblong, apiculate, concave. Petals rather shorter, 

 ear-shaped, glabrous. Lip rather shorter than the sepals, 

 oblong-panduriform, glabrous, with three spreading, 

 rounded terminal lobes. Spur about as long as the lip, 

 inflated.— /.D.S^. 



Fij?. 1, flower with the Bcpi; removed; 2, petal; 3, lip and column; 

 4, pollinium : — all enlarged. 



