nated, channelled and equitant at the base, costate, but not con- 
spicuously striated, of a uniform green colour, and quite gla- 
brous. Scape about equal in length to the leaves, terete, green, 
tinged with dark purple, villous or rather shaggy, as are the 
bractea, ovary, and whole back of the flower, with long, spread- 
ing hairs, suggesting Dr. Lindley’s specific name. Bract broad- 
ovate, sheathing, single-flowered. Pedice/ short, almost included 
within the sheath. Sepals all ciliated ; superior one broad, rhom- 
boidal-cordate, the margins at length reflexed, dark purplish- 
green, striated, quite green at the margin. Lateral sepals 
green, united into one, of an ovate form, striated, shorter than 
the lip. Petals very large, spreading horizontally, broad-spa- 
thulate, ciliated, the lamina purple, the claw green, mottled 
and dotted with purple, singularly lobato-undulated at the mar- 
gin. zp large, deep green, with a tinge of purple, the margin 
ciliated. Column short, and, as well as the square sterile stamen, 
obtuse at the angles and with a swelling or boss in the centre, 
variegated with green and white, and spotted with dark purple. 
