traveller Warszewicz. Reichenbach says, “flowers small, lip 
brown, dotted ;” but such is not the case in the living plant. 
Descr. Pseudobulb ovate, tapering upwards into a kind of neck, 
ereen, obscurely furrowed, crowned with three ligulate scarcely 
coriaceous, flaccid Jeaves, almost a foot long, and an inch and a 
half broad. Scape from the centre of these leaves terete, erect. 
Raceme almost a foot long, many-flowered. Bracfs minute. 
Pedicels scarcely an inch long, terminated by a turbinate, tri- 
_quetrous ovary. Sepals and petals uniform, spreading, an inch 
and more long, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, pale-yellow, 
with many dark-purple blotches, variable in size, fewer on the 
sepals than on the petals, or sometimes none. Jip the same 
length as the petals, unguiculate, white, greenish at the base : 
two lateral lobes short and rounded, very obtuse, middle lobe 
trowel-shaped, very acuminate, the upper side with a large pur- 
ple-lilac blotch, varying in intensity: the disk of the lip has an 
elevated ridge, with a longitudinal cleft in the lower half. Colwmn 
semiterete, terminated by three fimbriated lobes, with a brown 
blotch at the base. 
Fig. 1. Column and lip, seen from above. 2. Front view of the column. 
3 and 4, Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
