a sheathing scale terminated with a leafy appendage, and 
each pseudo-bulb is also terminated with a pair of elon- 
gated, moderately thin, lanceolate, recurved and somewhat 
nerveless leaves, about a span long: from the base of the 
pseudo-bulb, and in the axil of the leafy scale, arises the 
scape, two to three inches in height, and bearing two or 
three small bractee, and a single flower. Sepals and petals 
alike, lanceolate, the three former widely spreading, the 
two latter erecto-patent, all yellow-green, beautifully pen- 
cilled with brown lines, which are interrupted by pale 
bands. Lip with a long claw, which is united for its whole 
length with the column, its lamina broadly ovate, three- 
lobed, with a small, reflexed point, yellowish-white, streak- 
ed with purple lines; at the base are two deep orange spots, 
and in the middle are two slightly elevated oblong tuber- 
cles. Column quite erect, cylindrical, grooved in front, 
pale green, tawny upwards. Pollen-masses two, obovate, 
bipartite—The anther-case had fallen before I had the: 
opportunity of seeing the specimen, | 
Fig. 1. Column and Lip:—slightly magnified. 
