Descr. Pseudobulbs three to five inches long, elongate 

 ovoid, with straight sides, compressed, grooved, green, 

 sheathed to above the middle. Leaves in pairs, six to eight 

 inches long, two to two and a half inches broad, narrow ob- 

 long, obtnse, very coriaceous, nerveless, dark green. Scape 

 from the base of the pseudobulbs, stout, curved with a few 

 distant, short, triangular, appressed scales. Baceme about 

 ten-flowered, pendulous, six to eight inches long. Flowers 

 shortly pedicelled, an inch and a half in diameter. Bracts 

 small. Perianth ringent. Sepals recurved, obovate, acumi- 

 nate, pale brown externally, internally studded with trans- 

 verse, small, short, chocolate streaks or blotches. Petals 

 smaller, but similar in form and direction, dark chocolate in- 

 side. Lip subsessile, lateral lobes erect, obtuse, greenish, 

 striped with chocolate ; middle lobe oblong, acute, banded on 

 each side of the median line, like the sepals, but darker. 

 Column long, semiterete. Pollen-gland bicuspidate. — J. P. H. 



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



