furnished with " hairs quite, as dense as in a good hat-brush." 

 It is as easily managed as any of its congeners. 



Descr. Leaves pointed, about six inches long. Flower-spike 

 about the length of the leaves, five- to ten- flowered. Sepals oblong, 

 pointed, not carinate, an inch or more long. Petals more cu- 

 neate than the sepals, which they otherwise resemble, both in 

 form and colour, the latter being yellowish-white, barred with 

 broad streaks of rich reddish-brown. Lip short, unguicuate, 

 three-lobed, the lateral portions meeting in front and stretching 

 backwards, in which direction they end in a sort of curved 

 tooth ; the middle portion, which is pressed closely together at 

 the base, is fleshy throughout, and very hairy in front, of an 

 oblong or slightly panduriform shape, carinate along its centre 

 line, and provided with two slender, sharp, upright processes at 

 the point of its junction with the lateral lobes. In colour the 

 lip is white, with orange spots on its side partitions, and four 

 lines of violet (or in some varieties lilac) streaks along its central 

 lobe. Column white, semiterete, rather fiddle-shaped, with its 

 anther-Md fringed. — /. B. 



Fig. 1. Side view of column and lip. 2. Front view of ditto :— both slightly 

 magnified. 



