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A delicate plant up to 45 cm. high. Stipules and stipular 
glands nil. Flower orange yellow. Sepals 2, tinged with yellow 
and green. The lip and standard slightly spotted with crimson. 
I. porrecta, Wall.—Fig. 1, flower; 2, lateral sepal ; 3, spurred sepal; 
: 4, standard; 5, wing; 6, pistil. 
Auricular lobes nil. The mouth of the lip nearly closed by the 
contorted wings: spur slightly curved. Standard with blunt 
average number in 2 capsules examined was 2:5. This plant is 
13a. I. Toppinii, Dunn; species I. porrectae, Wall., affinis, sed 
floribus intense rubro-purpureis sepali postici ore cymbiformi 
distincta. 
acuminata, 4-6 cm. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, serrata dentibus parvis 
crebris apiculatis, utrinque hirtula, nervis 7-8-paribus; petaoll 
em. longi i 
1-2 edunculi 1-2-flori, 15-4 em. longi; pedicelli 
-3 em. longi, medio bractea lanceolata 5 mm. longa instructi 
Flores caleare curvato incluso 3 cm. longi, int ro-pur- 
ata, 1-1-5 em. longa, rubro-brunnea, 3—5 nervia; posticum ex ore 
cymbiformi 15-2 em. lato superne apiculato in calcar tenue seml- 
distalis longior, oblongus, obtusus; auricula dorsalis conspicua, 
flava. Capsula turgida, glabra. Semina 8, glanduloso-rugosa, © 
fusco-brunnea 
Kachin Hills. Sinlum; at 1500-1800 m., June and J uly, 1911, 
Toppin / . : F 
The dedication of this balsam to the memory of Major Toppin, 
CS ~ 
