the mesochile are very similar in character, but the hood is shallower, and its 
apex, though it overlaps the edge of the bucket, and thus approaches C. Bungerothii 
somewhat, is not prolonged in front as in that species, a character well shown 
at plate 244 of the Lindenia. 
The structure of a genus so complex as is the présent one is not easily 
described in few words, nor can ail the details be clearly indicated by the most 
faithful portrait. We may therefore append the following particulars of the présent 
species : — 
The dorsal sepal is suborbicular in outline, with the apex reflexed, 13/4 inches 
in diameter, striped and suffused with light brownish-purple on a pale yellowish- 
green ground. The latéral sepals are oblique, falcate-oblong, subobtuse, 2 inches 
broad, by more than twice as long, and curiously contorted, lightest yellowish- 
green, striped with light brownish-purple. The petals are falcate, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, 21/2 inches long by 7 lines broad, white, suffused and obscurely striped 
in the middle with light purple. The stalk of the lip is somewhat curved, 
î 1/2 inches long, ivory-white. The hood is oblique, almost of the shape of one 
valve of a cockle-shell, 1 3/4 inches long, by 1 1/2 broad, and about 1 inch deep, 
the apex very obtuse, and extending beyond the mesochile, so as to overlap the 
edge of the bucket; ivory-white, with aV- shaped band of appressed satiny hairs, 
extending from the stalk on either side. The basal angles of the hood gradually 
curve into the mesochile, which is profoundly sulcate behind, only 3/4 of an inch 
long, and with about three transverse fleshy plates on either side (the basal pair 
very strong), and several blunt teeth in front ; the whole ivory-white. The bucket 
is 2 inches in diameter, nearly 1 1/2 inches from front to back, and 1 3/4 inches 
deep; the sides large and round'ed at the margin. It is suffused and marbled with 
a beautiful light rosy-purple on a white ground, which, however, is nearly obliter- 
ated, especially on the sides; inside the colour is much paler, except near the 
margin. The apical teeth, as usual, are very fleshy; the front one oblong, very 
obtuse, and a little constricted near the apex; the side ones broadly triangular, 
with recurved tooth at apex. Just behind these is a strong fleshy transverse plate, 
over two lines high, and with three obscure teeth at apex, which prevents the 
fluid secreted by the two glands at the base of the column from escaping from 
the flat-bottomed bucket. The ovary is 41/4 inches long, irregularly blotched 
with lurid purple on a pale ground, and the greenish-white column 2 inches long, 
in structure much resembling other species of the genus. 
R. A. Rolfe. 
