lanceolate, cuspidately long-pointed: 3 outer ones of the 

 same length; side ones uneven-sided, erecting themselves ^ 



obliquely, marked with 4 incomplete stripes, middle one 

 straight, one-striped: 2 inner ones facing each other, en- j 



closed, much smaller, linear, pointed, one-striped. Label 

 hanging forwards, scarcely longer than the petals, oblately 

 roundish, rosy white, glittering, loosely spotted with purple, 

 smooth, denticulately eroded round the margin, deeply 

 three-lobed, shortly unguiculate; side lobes etmeately ob- 

 long slanted at the top, middle one broader, obcordate, with 

 a minute cornicle or mucro at the bottom of the notch: spur 

 pale coloured, pointing downwards, shorter than the germen 

 with which it is parallel, bluntish at the end, a little dilated 

 below the tip. Column twice shorter than the petals or 

 more, dilated at the lower part and white ; headpiece or cu- 

 cullus deep purple-red upright slanting backwards in front, 

 cists parted by a wide furrow which contains the white 



Jlandular incomplete partition in its lower portion ; antkeri- 

 'erous gland slanting and protuberant obi use : pollen masses 

 with a short copperas-green head and a longer tawny yellow 

 shining stalk. Stigma two-lobed, shining, humid, purplish, 

 affixed to the front of the interior wall of the cavity in the 

 lower part of the column or filament underneath the anthe- 

 riferous gland. ' 



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