the globe, and must be treated accordingly, and even then, as 

 Mr. Bateman informs me, it is difficult to flower. 



Descr. Stems tufted, eight to twelve inches high, terete 

 and as thick as a goose-quill below, expanding upwards into 

 a club-shaped, deeply grooved pseudobulb, that bears two or 

 three terminal or subterminal leaves. Leaves four to six 

 inches long in this variety, sessile, oblong, pale green, nearly 

 plane, unequally two-lobed at the very tip. Maceme a foot 

 and upwards high, erect, nodding at the apex, many-flowered. 

 Bracts linear-oblong, membranous. Pedicels short, nearly 

 glabrous. Ovary and back of sepals hirsute. Flowers two 

 inches in diameter. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, greenish- 

 yellow, paler inside. Petals smaller, spathulate, dirty-white. 

 Lip large, three-lobed ; lateral lobes subreniform, ascending, 

 yellow-green with radiating purple streaks ; middle lobe 

 transversely oblong, convex, obscurely three-lobed, green, 

 with a few radiating dotted lines. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3, 4. Pollen : — all magnified. 



