bract below the flower, and another towards the base. Flowers 
inclined, three inches in diameter from the tip of the upper 
to those of the lateral sepals. Sepals combined at the base 
into a short campanulate tube, then spreading, subequal, all 
of them abruptly contracted into siender spreading almost 
filiform yellow tails longer than themselves; upper sepal 
boat-shaped, very concave or galeate, lower half yellow, upper 
half violet-purple ; lateral sepals more flattened, with strongly 
recurved margins, violet-purple towards the lower half, the 
upper half white or straw-coloured. Petals very small, white, 
membranous, dimidiate-oblong, tip truncate and toothed, 
base dilated in front into an obtuse auricle. zp linear- 
oblong, shortly clawed, nearly white, tip provided with a 
terminal recurved purple callus; surface nearly smooth. 
Ovary angled and grooved.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with sepals removed ; 2, column and claw of lip; 3, lip :— 
all magnified. 
