Descu. The stems (rather than pseudobulbs) are short, about 

 two to three inches long, densely clustered, sheathed with scales, 

 and each terminated by a fleshy leaf five to six inches long, 

 linear-oblong, subacute, carinated at the back. Peduncles or 

 scapes radical, one to one and a half inch long, sheathed with 

 bracts. The solitary flower is set on to the peduncle obliquely 

 by the short subturbinate ovary. Floiver moderately large. 

 Sepals yellow, brownish at the base, internally deep purple at the 

 base, and spotted upwards with the same colour, greenish at the 

 spreading apices ; these sepals are united in the lower half into 

 a tube rather longer than broad, very gibbous at the lower base, 

 so as to form a blunt spur ; the segments or free lobes are subulate 

 and moderately spreading. Petals small, white, spathulate, acute, 

 the sides unequal, erect, and parallel with the column. Labellum 

 jointed on to the base of the produced column and closely ap- 

 plied to it, oblong, mottled and dotted with dark purple. Column 

 white, equal in height with the petals, winged upwards, the 

 wings incurved towards the stigma. Anther-case small. 



Fig. 1. Section of a flower, with the peduncle. 2. Column, with petals and 

 lip in their natural position. 3. The same, with the lip forced back, to show the 

 column and petals more distinctly : — magnified. 





