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FLORA OF BURMA. 
Caiilis GO-90 cm. longus, flexuosus, Ijievis, pendens, gracilis. Folia 
ad 10 cm. longa, 1*5 cm. lata, loriformia, apice insequaliter et obtuse 
blloba, sinu basi cuspidate, coriacea, non-recurvata, paululum carinata. 
Scapus erectus, racemo terminali paucifloro, bracteis 7-8 mm. longis 
ovato-lanceolatis. Flores albi roseo-suffusi. Sepala et petala 2*5 cm. 
longa, ’5 cm. lata, subconsimilia, oblonga, obtusa, undulata. Lahellum 
sepalis brevius, carnosnra, hypocliilio lobis rubris columna3 non adnatis 
instructo, epiebilio a latere compresso purpureo. 
East of Salween river, Southern Shan States, Burma, at an elevation 
of 7,000 feet, collected by Captain R. H. Phillimore R.E, 
The stems are two to three feet long, drooping, of the thickness of a 
goosequill, flexuous, smooth, without the warts which characterize its 
ally S. undulata. The leaves are strap-shaped, very slightly keeled, un- 
equally and obtusely bifid, usually 3 inches long by \ inch wide. 
Feduncle about 8 inches, with a raceme of G-3 inches ; pedicel with 
ovary about 1 inch. Flowers 2 inches across, sepals and petals wide- 
spreading, except the lateral sepals which hang contiguous below the lip, 
all oblong obtuse not fleshy and fading rapidly, somewhat waved, white 
tinged and veined with rosy-pink. Tips of sepals indexed, especially the 
laterals which are slightly the wider. Whole lip fleshy, with side lobes 
reddish, brown veined ; upper surface of long mid-lobe purple, rising to 
a sharp callus and terminating in a blunt knob. Column short, 
contiguous to the side-lobes of the lip but not adnate ; anther 2-lobed. 
The species comes very near to S, undulata. 
