Veitch for the specimen here figured, which flowered in 
autumn of the present year. 
Duscr. Pseudo-bulb ovoid or obpyriform, compressed, and 
more or less two-edged, one and a half to two inches long, 
about one inch broad. Leaves oblong or broadly linear, cari- 
nate, at least below, rather obtuse, three to five inches long, 
one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad. Raceme 8-10- 
flowered, unilateral on a slender erect peduncle, one-half to 
one foot long, closely sheathed by several scarious empty 
bracts ; upper bracts ovate-lanceolate, conduplicate, half as 
long as the ovary. Sepals subequal, divergent, narrow-oval 
acute, the two lower united at the base in a minute mentum, 
deep rose or crimson. Petals equalling the sepals, and simi- 
lar in form and colour, divergent. Zabellum three-lobed, 
lateral lobes rotundate ; median larger, emarginate, denticu- 
late, crimson excepting the pale or white 4-ridged disk, and 
yellowish base of the lateral lobes. Column white at apex.— 
J. 2). #7, 
Fig. 1, Column and labellum ; 2, labellum, front view :—Jloth magnified. 
