very convex smooth, face channelled, the sinus acute at the 
base (¢.e., at the midrib) pale-green on both surfaces; basal 
sheaths tight, brown, scarious, acute. Raceme three to four 
inches long, almost sessile, 6-8-flowered, slender, drooping; 
bracts short, ovate, acute. Flowers subsessile, nearly one and 
a half inches in diameter. Ovary slender. Sepals and petals 
nearly equal and similar, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly 
twisted, white. vp sessile, broadly elliptic, abruptly acumi- 
nate, nearly flat, membranous, margins erose, white speckled 
with blood-red ; base with two short small conniving ridges, 
and an obscure depression in front of them. Column white, 
slightly bent backwards from about the middle, abruptly 
terminated by a broad open obtusely trapeziform hood with 
fimbriate margins; angles below the hood with a short 
subulate recurved appendage on each side. Anthers small, 
sunk in the hood.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of column; 8, lip :—all magnified. 
