Descr. Stews a foot or more long, extremely thick throughout 

 their whole length, bent downwards, ', when young, with 



thin, white membranes, which fall off the second year. Leaves 



stiff and leathery, from two to four inches long, blunt and usu- 

 ally a little notched at the cuds, falling oft' the first year, 

 in twos or (more rarely) in threes, produced freely on a short 

 spurious raceme, along more than half the entire length of the 

 stems. Pedicels nearly two inches long. Sepals half the length 

 of the pedicels, oblong-lanceolate, acute, of a beautiful light-rose 

 colour, except at the base, where the rose-colour i\u\v< into n ! 

 Petals same colour as the sepals, than which they are slightly 

 broader, unguiculate, ovate, somewhat obtuse. Lip entire, shorteV 

 than the sepals, and (when spread flat) nearly round, apiculate, 

 hooded, downy in front and at the edges, with rich purple inte- 

 rior markings on either side the throat, and a lighter tint along 

 its centre and at the recurved apex. — J. B. 



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