Descr. Stem very short. Leaves six to eight inches 

 long, by two to two and a half broad, linear-oblong, 

 acute, recurved towards the apex, channelled along tlie 

 centre, with convex sides, bright green, smooth, glossy. 

 Panicle with its peduncle much longer than the leaves, 

 slender, sparingly branched; flowers distant; peduncle 

 and rachis slender, dark green ; bracts small, green. 

 Floiucrs one and a half inches in diameter, pedicel and 

 ovary together nearly an inch long, slender, pale. Perianth 

 white with four or five broad red-purple transverse bands 

 on each leaflet ; dorsal sepal oblong, tip rounded, lateral 

 rather broader and more elliptic; petals about the same 

 size as the sepals, but rather broader upwards, and sub- 

 spatbulate. Lip small, shorter than the sepals ; lateral 

 lobes narrow, erect and rather recurved, spur-like, their 

 tips pointing to the constriction in the column ; midlobo 

 clawed with a cleft recurved spur at the base ; limb oblong, 

 obtuse, red-purple with a white margin, disk clothed thickly 

 with long erect villi. Column with the sides constricted 

 in front about the middle, the edges inflected. — J. JJ. II. 



Fig. 1, Column and lip seen sideways ; 2, front view of column ; 3, anther 

 with the tip of the stipes and gland projecting ; 4, pollinia with stipes and gland : — 

 all enlarged. 



all enlarged. 



