suddenly contracted into a flexuous ascending tail about half 
an inch long; lateral sepals combined into a linear-oblong 
boat-shaped straight limb which is notched at the tip, and 
bears on each margin beyond the middle a flexuous filiform 
tail of about the same length as that of the dorsal sepal. 
Petals linear-oblong, erect, obtusely 3-toothed at the tip. 
Jip tongue-shaped, recurved and with recurved margins, 
deeply 2-lobed at the base, grooved down the centre. Column 
club-shaped.—J. D. H. : 
_Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, transverse section of do.; 3, top of scape and flower ; 4, lateral — 
view of flower; 5, do. with sepals removed :—all enlarged. : 
