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emarginate-mucronate, dark green, irregularly blotclied witli grey, tlie under-side 
thickly covered with purple spots. The hairy purplish scape is about two inches 
high, supporting one or two flowers, which issue from a short, boat-shaped 
spotted bract. The flowers are straw-coloured ; the dorsal sepal is roundish, 
concave, emarginate, an inch wide, the anterior one smaller, the petals oblong- 
obtuse, all spotted with small crimson dots, and ciliated ; the lip is narrow^ 
oblong-obtuse, the upper edge nearly equally folded in, leaving an open mouth. 
The sterile stamen is shining, yellow, subcordate, cuspidate, with a central groove, 
and a boss on each side, the upper margin ciliated. This species is a native 
of Moulmein, where it grows on limestone rocks, and we owe its introduction 
both to the Eev. 0. Parish and Lieutenant-Colonel Benson, both of whom have 
been most successful collectors of orchids in the Burmese and Tenasserim provinces. 
But few cultivators of this plant have hitherto succeeded in growing it 
luxuriantly, and many, disappointed with its appearance under bad treatment, 
have pronounced it to be a very inferior species, not worth cultivation. Under 
proper management, however, it becomes an exceeedingly beautiful and distinct 
plant, well deserving evfery attention. As before remarked, the plant is found 
