flowering" period, 6-15 cm. long ; scape somewhat flexuous, with 

 3 distant acute membranous sheaths ; raceme laxly, or more 

 rarely, somewhat densely, 7-15flowered ; bracts ovate acute, 

 shorter than the pedicellate ovary ; sepals rather spreading oblong- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate acute, 0"9-l'5 cm. long; petals declinate, 

 often either one or both adnate by the posticous margin to the 

 back of the column, ovate-oblong or obovate obtuse about as long 

 as the sepals ; labellum in outline ovate-oblong, as long as the 

 sepals, Slobed, the lateral lobes obtuse, the intermediate about 

 twice as long, obovate, truncate at the apex, slightly emarginate 

 undulate crested with branched tubercles, spur cylindrical, slightly 

 incurved, 0'5-0"7 cm. long ; column without a projecting foot, 

 0"5-0'7 cm. long ; stipe very short ; ovary with the pedicel l"o-2*5 

 cm. long. 



I have not seen the type of this species, but have had the 

 advantage of seeing and examining several specimens from the 

 Kew Herbarium, named by Messrs. N. E. Brown and R. A. 

 Rolfe, of Kew, and one which had been compared by the former 

 with Thunberg's specimen of Limodorinn hians and with Lindley's 

 E. clavicornis. This species grows sometimes in the company 

 of E. i?iceqiialis Schlechter from which it is distinguishable by its 

 purple, not yellowish, colour, and the absence of any projecting 

 foot to its column. 



