rest having the same dull tinge of purple as the flowers. Sepa/s 
and petals uniform in shape and size and colour, linear-lanceolate, 
concave, dull, somewhat greenish-purple. The dorsal sepal and 
the petals approximated, parallel, all at the back of the column, 
the petals with their backs to the margin of the dorsal sepal, the 
two other sepals having an opposite direction and placed at the 
back of the lip. Lip ovato-deltoid, acuminate, thick and fleshy, 
variegated with dark green and red purple, the margin recurved, 
the base saccate, and above the sack is a conical callosity of a 
red colour (yellow in <); the whole sprinkled with deep blood- 
coloured dots. Column half the length of the sepals, acuminated, 
grooved in front, below having two sete, which extend downwards 
a little beyond the callosity of the lip. 
