a very oblique mouth, much shorter than the stout erect 
glandular ovary, which is sometimes four inches long. 
Flowers four to five inches broad across the petals. Upper 
sepal broadly ovate-cordate, much acuminate, white with 
many dark green and purple stripes ; lateral sepals combined 
into one ovate lanceolate blade, with a notched tip, which is 
placed under the lip, and is rather broader and larger than 
this is, pale with green stripes. Pefals longer than the 
upper sepal, deflexed at an angle of forty-five degrees, three 
inches long, linear-oblong, obtuse, whitish, faintly tinged 
_ with green, rose-coloured towards the tip, studded with dark 
purple spots, some of which are ocellated ; margins fringed 
with purple hairs, many of which are disposed in tufts in the 
marginal purple spots. Zp two inches long; sac inflated, 
smooth, dirty purple above ; mouth with acute raised angular 
margins. Staminode horseshoe-shaped with incurved points. 
Stigma suborbicular.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front; and 2, lateral view of column :—both magnified. 
