linear- oblong, narrowed at the base, obtuse with a recurved 

 tip, thickly coriaceous. Scape shorter than the leaf, stout; 

 bract sheathing with an obliquely truncate membranous 

 tip, two-fld. Floivers very large for the genus. Sepals 

 two, three inches long, dull creamy white with purple- 

 brown veins, lower (that at the back of the lip) formed of 

 two confluent sepals, base ovate-oblong concave, narrowed 

 into a tail three times the length of the base, which latter 

 has four coloured nerves ; upper sepal as long, but narrower, 

 with three coloured nerves. Petals creamy white, basal 

 part shortly oblong, a quarter of an inch long, three-nerved, 

 toothed at the tip, and with a filiform tail as long as the 

 sepals inserted between the teeth. Lip three-quarters of 

 an inch long, three-lobed ; lateral lobes basal, linear, as- 

 cending, and falcately incurved with obtuse hooked tips, 

 colourless and hyaline; midlobe twice as long as the 

 lateral, linear - oblong, red -brown, obscurely papillose, 

 grooved down the centre, bearded at the darker tip. 

 Column short, obtuse, with two tumid villous prominences 

 at the base in front. Ovary short, grooved.— J". B. H. 



Fig. 1, Side view of column and lip ; 2, front view of column ; 3 and 4, front 

 and back view of anther ; 5, pollen-masses :— all enlarged. 



