seven inches. Sepals lanceolate, acute, sessile, smooth at 

 the edges. Petals more than twice as broad as the sepals, 

 about the same length as the lip, somewhat obtuse, very 

 much waved at the margin. Lip oblong, crisp, very large 

 and prominent, of a substance resembling dark purple velvet 

 beautifully and uniformly streaked with golden threads 

 radiating from its centre, where they meet three other 

 golden lines passing longitudinally. It is obscurely three- 

 lobed, the lateral lobes being gathered round so as almost 

 to conceal the column; the central lobe emarginate, very 

 large, with its edges exceedingly curled. Column not more 

 than one third the length of the lip. — J. H. 



