inches long by one to one and a quarter inch broad, nar- 
rowly linear-oblong, dark green and deeply channelled 
down the centre above, keeled beneath, complicate at the 
base, where the sheathing portion is mottled with purple. 
Scape about as long as the leaves, with an oblong com- 
pressed basal sheath, slender, dark red-purple, pubescent, 
-one-flowered; bract linear-oblong, obtuse, compressed, 
much shorter than the red-purple ovary, green streaked 
with purple dots. Flowers erect, three inches long from 
the base of the sac of the lip to the top of the dorsal sepal, 
and about two inches across the petals when these are in 
their ordinary deflexed position. Dorsal sepal, very large, 
suddenly expanding from a broad cuneate hairy green 
speckled base into an almost horizontal broad snow-white 
and obcordate lamina nearly two inches in diameter, the 
dorsal margins of which are reflexed and decurved; the 
anterior margin stretches forward and is complicate in the 
middle, there forming a very acute compressed erect ridge ; 
a thin purple line runs from the base to the top of the 
sepal. Lateral sepals combined into a broadly ovate acu- 
minate white concave blade, with recurved margins placed 
under the lip and shorter than it. Petals much shorter 
than the lip, deflexed, linear-oblong, obtuse, with crisped 
margins, pale greenish with red stripes and specks. ip 
large, sac bell-shaped with rounded everted auricles and a 
broad acute sinus, base rounded, red-brown, glossy. 
Column short, hairy, staminode orbicular with strongly 
recurved margins, bright purple margined with white.— 
. 2. Jee e 
Fig. 1, side, and 2, front view of column and staminode; 3, apex of column and 
anther :—ald enlarged. : 
