the flowers” (resembling what are seen in some species of An- 
tholyza), “and not at the foot of the scape. They often, per- 
haps always, produce a second scaly sheath beyond the first 
series of flowers, and out of that sheath arises a second series of 
flowers.” With us its flowering season is in April. Dr. Lindley 
considers this perhaps the finest of the genus. 
Dxscr. Pseudobulbs oblong, compressed, angulato-sulcate, 
when young scaly at the base, bearing two or three large sword- 
shaped, striated, coriaceo-membranaceous, acuminated Jeaves, a 
foot and a half and more long. Scape terminal on the bulb, 
arising from between the leaves, shorter than the leaves, clothed, 
below the rather long spike of eight to ten flowers, with op- 
posite, large, closely imbricated, brown, hard, obtuse dracteas. 
The floral bracteas are long, subcarinate, membranaceous, very 
deciduous. Flowers large, .cream-white, drooping. Sepals and 
petals spreading, narrow-lanceolate, the latter the smallest and 
narrowest. Lp large, beautifully spotted and blotched with 
orange in regular figures, obovate, acute, very indistinctly three- 
lobed ; disc plane, with three, slightly elevated ridges, and fur- 
nished with two, remarkably beautiful, long, waved, and crisped 
white crests: dotted at the edge with blood-red, commencing at 
the base of the lip, and terminating as far as the orange blotch 
extends. Column elongated, winged upwards. Anthers sunk in 
the clinandrium. 
Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Column :—magnified. 
