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lip. It contains a few species only, which are natives of India and 

 Ceylon. 



Culture. — It requires the general treatment of Anoedochilus, and is a 

 free-growing plant, which may be cultivated in a warm house without 

 the assistance of a bell-glass. 



Nl. REGIUM, Lindl. — A distinct species, growing about 5 inctes tigli, and 

 having ovate-lanceolate leaves 3 inches long, with a margin of a dark green 

 colour, and a broad band of pale lilac or whitish down the centre ; the flowers 

 are white and green in loose spikes, and the lip is split into a pair of roundish 

 crenate lobes. Its native name is "Iri Rajah," or Striped King of the Woods. — 

 Ceylon and Borneo. 



Fig. — Blume, Orch. Arch. Iiid., t. 48. 



Syn. — AnoectocMliis striatus : A. Uneatus ; Haplocliilus reghivb: 



Mo ORE A, Bolfe. 



{Tribe Vandeae, suhtrihe Stanhopieae.) 



A small genus at present, indeed it is the only species known. It 

 has been dedicated to Mr. F. W. Moore, the most indefatigable and 

 painstaking Curator of the Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, who 

 can give no account of its origin, having received it with a number of 

 imported Orchids. It would appear to come near the genus. Hculletia, 

 from which it differs however in the lip being destitute of a claw, and 

 jointed with the base of the column, but the epichil is not jointed to the 

 hypochil. It has oblong-ovoid pseudobulbs, having a pair of leaves 

 vvhich are lanceolate, acuminate, and plaited, some 2 feet long. It has 

 an erect spike, bearing many flowers, which are some 2 inches across, 

 the sepals and petals spreading, lip very deeply three-lobed. Column 

 somewhat clavate, wingless. 



Culture. — Same as Lycaste, which see. 



Nl. IRRORATA, Bolfe. — This distinct new Orchid was first flowered by Mr. F. 

 W. Moore, Curator of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, Dublin, and the new genus 

 which has been created for it has been dedicated by Mr. Eolfe to him', who 

 thus describes the species in the Gardeners' Ghronicle, July 5th, 1890 :—" Pseudo- 

 bulbs ovoid-oblong, 4| inches long ; leaves petiolate plicate lanceolate shortly 

 acuminate, 1| to 2 feet long, 4J inches broad ; flowers 2 inches in diameter, 

 .pedicels 1 J to . 2 inches long ; sepals 6 to 7 lines diameter, reddish-brown with 

 nearly white base, the lateral ones connate, petals similar but a shade narrower ; 



