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this as coming midway between L pumila and L 

 tectorum, thus forming a connecting link between the 

 sub-genera Pogoniris and Evansia, possessing as it does 

 both crest and beard. The rhizome is stout and short- 

 creeping. The leaves are five to six to a rosette, three 

 elongated and erect, somewhat glaucous, about half a 

 foot long at flowering time, veins and edges hyaline or 

 translucent. The peduncle is very short ; spathes one 

 flowered, valves lanceolate, unequal, the innermost 

 1 1 to 2 in. long. The perianth-tube is greenish, cylin- 

 drical, 2 to 2 J in. long ; the falls obovate-cuneate, 

 reflexing, ij in. long, dark lilac or purple, much mottled 

 or veined with paler colour, crest white and depressed, 

 bearing white filaments with yellow tips; inner segments 

 oblong, erect, paler lilac. The style appendages or 

 crests are deltoid, lilac in the middle, paler towards the 

 edge. A native of the Central Himalayas. 



Mr Baker makes /. Kingiana the same as /. kumao- 

 nensis. Sir Michael Foster considers them different. 

 I have a note that the falls of /. kumaonensis are 

 spreading, while those of /. Kingiana reflex. 

 45. I. Duthiei, Foster in Card. Chron., 1887, i. 6ll. 

 The rhizome is knarled and knotty, with sheaths partly 

 splitting up into fibres and bearing new young buds at 

 their bases. While the plant is in flower the leaves are 

 only 2 to 3 in. long, the full development not taking 

 place until midsummer, when they attain a length of 

 2 ft., with breadth of \ in. The stem is very short, 

 one-headed; spathe one-flowered, valves lanceolate, ij in. 

 long, keeled, and somewhat ventricose. The perianth- 

 tube is 3 in. or more in length, falls spreading almost 

 horizontally, lanceolate, or obovate-cuneate, reddish blue, 

 with deeper veins and blotches, claw bearded ; standards 

 connivent, oblong-ovate, blade of red lilac, paler than the 

 falls, and marked with deeper veins ; style branches 

 reddish lilac, crests deltoid, with crenate edge. A native 



