and there lapping over, like the lid of a box; they are green 

 mottled with brown, and more or less wrinkled, and in a young 

 state bear a solitary leaf at the summit. Scapes one to two, from 

 the very base of the pseudobulbs, stout, and shorter than they 

 clothed with large concave ovate imbricated brads. Flowers 

 large solitary, very handsome. Sepals and petals uniform, nar- 

 row lanceolate, rose-colour, spreading. Lip very large, convo- 

 lute at the base around the column, spreading, and waved and 

 crisped at the margin, white mottled with yellow and deep- 

 purple. Column elongated. 



Fig. 1 Column and anther. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Front view of the lip — 

 >re or less maanifird. l 



more or less magnified. 



