seen. Lacemes three to five inches long, ovoid-oblong, obtuse, 
pendulous from alternate nodes, shortly peduncled, very 
many and dense-flowered, the flowers imbricating before 
full expansion; peduncle and rachis green; bracts minute; 
pedicels half an inch long. Yowers one and a half inches 
in diameter, ivory-white except the amethystine purple end 
of the limb of the lip. Sepals and petals nearly equal, 
obovate-oblong, acute, spreading. Jip cymbiform, elongate 
linear-spathulate in outline, with a short claw, tip apiculate, 
margins incurved, except toward the apex; base beyond the 
claw with a fleshy triangular appendage, that points back- 
wards. Column short, the sides produced upwards into two 
short toothed wings.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip, column, and ovary; 2, front view of lip; 3, front view of 
column, &c.:—all magnified. 
