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round, deep shining green, lengthening at the top into a kind 
of two-edged drooping stalk, covered by numerous thin 
oblong acuminate bracts of a pale yellowish green, spotted 
and tinged with brownish red at the point, and bearing a 
loose panicle of dingy coloured flowers at the extremity. 
Leaves alternate, thick and rigid, clasping the stem at the 
base, much recurved and twisted, with an obtuse remarginate 
point. They vary from six to eight inches in length, and an 
inch, or an inch and a half in breadth, and are of a deep 
shining green, marked in several places with brown-coloured 
blotches. Panicle consisting of eight or nine brownish green 
flowers, with their faces all turned one way, and remarkably 
sweet-scented in the day time. Pedicels upwards of two 
inches long, round and much curved, of a brownish green at 
the base, which is furnished with a small acuminate scale, 
higher coloured and channelled towards the flower. Sepals 
spreading, oblong-lanceolate acute, three-quarters of an inch 
long and one-quarter of an inch broad, of a dull green, 
tinged at the points and edges with deep brown; before 
expansion the outside is of a deep brownish red. Petals 
similar in form and colour to the sepals, but thinner in texture 
and somewhat narrower.  Zabellum three-lobed, spreading 
and much recurved, deeply cut. The two lateral lobes taken 
together form a sort of crescent at the back, with the margin 
slightly cut and undulated. ‘The middle lobe is much 
recurved, and has a prominent rib down the centre with a 
groove on either side. All of them have a fleshy tinge near 
the outside, but inwardly they are very pale, almost white, as 
well as the column which is slightly curved and tubular, green 
at the base, enlarging outwardly, and having two small 
roundish obtuse fleshy processes at the mouth, just above 
where the column and central lobe of the labellum are 
united. Anther case round, somewhat reniform, four-celled, 
containing two pair of pollen-masses with their largest end 
upwards. | 
** The plant requires the constant heat of a damp stove, 
and the same treatment as others of its class. 
* W. B. Boorna." 
