bulb, a span high, bearing many rather large, sheathing sca/es, 
and similar ones on dracts are seen at the base of each of the 
three or four flowers. Pedicels long. Sepals and petals pure 
cream-white, with transverse red spots or lines at their base : 
the former oval-oblong, the latter broader, ovato-rotundate, all 
acute. Lip large, white, with a yellow claw, three-lobed: the 
base or claw thick and fleshy, bearing a lobe on each side 
streaked with red, with a tubercle on the disc and a bifid tu- 
bercle in front: the terminal lobe very large, broadly cordate, 
obscurely veined, waved and a little crenate at the margin, the 
point acute or a little reflexed. Column rather large, terete, 
with a spreading, oblong wing standing out on each side, a 
little below the apex. Anther-case hemispherical or helmet- 
shaped, acute. Pollen-masses two, obovate, yellow, attached 
to a flattened stalk, and that to an oblong gland. 
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column and anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
