inches high, shorter than the leaves. Leaves, one on each stem, 

 not more than six inches long, fleshy, oblong, sharp-pointed. 

 Peduncle short, one-flowered. Flowers larger and more fleshy 

 than those of L. pumila, and more horizontally spread out. 

 Bracts scale-like, short. Sepals oblong-acute, much narrower 

 than the ovate-oblong petals, both being of a beautiful rosy-lilac. 

 Lip free, three-lobed in front, wrapped entirely round the column, 

 very stiff and fleshy, and incapable of being spread out flat un- 

 less forcibly bisected down the middle ; along its disk run four 

 or six elevated lines ; externally it is almost of the same colour 

 as the petals, but its throat is yellow, and its upper portion of a 

 rich purple. Column thick and stout, spreading out above, and 

 carrying two auricles, that rest upon each other. 



Fig. 1. Column. 2, 3. Sections of the lip, showing the column : — magnified. 



