Nepal ; he al^o received it from his collectors, who sent it 

 from the Cachar mountains on the frontier of Sylhet. 



The drawing was made in June 1837, in the collection of 

 Messrs. Loddiges. 



When this genus was placed in the Genera and Species 

 of Orchidaceous plants, I had only examined a young dried 

 bud, and I had been led to suppose it a member of the section 

 called Vandese, but the recent plant shows that it in fact 

 belongs to Epidendreas, and that it must be placed, along 

 with Acanthophippium in the neighbourhood of Phaius and 

 Bletia. 



Fig. 1. represents the petals and labellum after the calyx 

 has been cut away ; 2. is the column seen in half-front, with 

 the lacerated erect margin of the anther-bed (clinandrium) ; 

 3. shews the pollen-masses adhering to a shapeless granular 

 disk. 



