slender, colored, pedunculiform. Perianth large, handsome, 

 varied with purple and white. Sepals and petals spreading, 

 white, the upper half purple-blush : the former oblong acute ; 

 the latter ovate, all of them striated. Lip small, in proportion 

 to the rest of the flower, white tipped with deep purple, and 

 having two purple spots on the disk. Column short, very 

 decurrent, the lip articulated at the end of the prolonged 

 base. 



Fig. 1. Column, and Lip forced back : — magnified. 



