greenish, slightly spotted in lines. The petals are narrow-oblong, 
spathulate, obtuse, wavy on the margin except near the base 
where they are plane, glossy on both surfaces, but sprinkled 
with short purple hairs on the outer, and bearded on the inner 
surface near the base, yellowish-green, veined and somewhat 
stained with brownish-purple. The lip is narrowish, the mar¬ 
gins indexed at the base, the front saccate, with its edges pro¬ 
duced into a pair of erect oblong rounded auricles, greenish- 
yellow, stained with brownish-purple in front, shining, the in¬ 
dexed margin yellow, and the inside dotted with purple. The 
column and the face of the obcordate sterile stamen are clothed 
with purple hairs, and the central wart is less prominent than in 
other forms of the species. 
It is a really handsome and attractive form of this well- 
known species, differing most obviously in the broader surface 
of pure white on the dorsal sepal, and in the purple spotting 
which occurs on this white ground, quite distinct from the 
brownish spots which only are met with in the ordinary states 
of the species. The spots are moreover, more distinct, larger, 
and less numerous than usual, and fully two-thirds of the sur¬ 
face of the sepal is white. 
The plant was exhibited by Messrs. Maule and Sons, of the 
Stapleton Road Nurseries, Bristol, and our dgure was prepared 
from their specimens. They state that it was imported from 
Lahore, by way of Bombay, some four years since, and flowered 
last year for the first time. They also state that the plant thrives 
in a moderate stove temperature (not over high), planted in 
turfy peat soil mixed up with potsherds or crocks broken very 
small. They allow it a liberal supply of water during the 
growing-time, from March to June, after which less water is 
given at the root, but a moist atmosphere is maintained through 
the greater part of the year. 
