The plant here figured was raised from roots sent by 
Mr. Leighton, Curator of the King William’s Town Botanical 
Gardens (formerly Foreman of the Herbaceous Collection 
at Kew), together with several other interesting terrestrial 
Orchids. It was found in an old decayed Perie wood 
(whence Mr. Bolus also procured it), and it grows well in 
the cool orchid house at Kew in a mixture of peat and 
loam. 
— Descr. Roots of strong stout fibres. Leaves five to seven, 
all radical, eight to twelve inches long by three to five 
broad, narrowed into a broad concave petiole, elliptic- 
lanceolate, acuminate, plaited with five to nine nerves, and 
corrugated here and there between the nerves, membranous, 
pale green and translucent. Flowering-stem longer than 
the leaves, stout, erect, with a few short acute sheaths; 
raceme pyramidal, six to eight inches long; rachis robust ; 
bracts lanceolate, herbaceous, green, shorter than the 
ovary, which is about an inch long and slender. lowers 
one to one and a half inch’ in diameter, pale lilac with a 
darker redder lip, or with the sepals and petals white and 
suffused with lilac towards the margin only. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate. Petals rather shorter and broader. 
Lip about as long as the sepals; lateral lobes basal, small, 
oblong, obtuse and curved, or almost rounded; mid-lobe 
broadly obcordate ; disk with a cluster of prominent 
tubercles at the base, and a few smaller ones along the 
mesial line towards the notch at the end; spur slender, 
incurved, white, as long as the ovary; column very short, 
subglobose, with two cavities in front, one on each side.— 
0.0: H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2, leaf; and 3, raceme, both of the 
natural size; 4, column and lip; 5, column seen in front; 6, anther; 7, pollen- 
masses :—all except figs. 1-3 enlarged. 
