Skinner, Esq., who sent living plants to Mr. Bateman. 
Its drooping panicles of numerous rose-coloured flowers are 
exceedingly beautiful, and they are moreover fragrant. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, oblong, compressed, smooth, 
clustered, partially sheathed at the base, green, bearing 
two linear-lanceolate, somewhat membranous leaves at the 
summit, From the base of the pseudo-bulb the scape 
arises, but soon becomes drooping, a foot or more long, 
imcluding the panicle of graceful flowers, of a beautiful 
rose colour. Sepals spreading, linear-oblong, waved, as 
well as the petals, which are also spreading and oblong, 
but broader than the sepals. Lip deflexed, three-lobed, 
the side lobes spreading, acute, (between them is a yellow 
crest of five, crenate laminz,) the middle lobe dilated, 
rounded, and emarginate at the point. Coluwmm short, white 
at the base, swollen and yellow below the concave stigma, 
above, on each side, furnished with a large, fan-shaped, 
crenate wing ; clinandrium rostrate, and the hemispherical 
anther-case terminates in a long beak corresponding with it. 
Pollen-masses two, obovate, attached to a long, filiform, 
caudicle. : 
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip. 3. Pollen-mass:—magnified. 
