Descr. Pseudobulbous stems fusiform or pear-shaped, two or 

 three inches high, and bearing four or five narrow fleshy sharp- 

 pointed leaves, which are at least twice as long as the swollen 

 stems. From the side near the apex of the latter arise the 

 flower-stalks, which are stiff and erect, about a foot high, and 

 terminated by a dozen or more loosely distributed flowers, to 

 which the yellow and white sepals and petals and the mauve 

 lip give a very peculiar appearance. Bracts small, triangular, 

 bristle-pointed, not a quarter the length of the ovary. Sepals 

 ligulate, somewhat acute, forming at their base a short, blunt, 

 conical men turn or chin. Petals very narrow at the base, and 

 slightly longer but otherwise nearly of the same shape as the 

 sepals, and, like them, white tipped with yellow. Lip white at 

 the edges and extremities, but deep mauve on its disc, of a pro- 

 longed wedge-shaped form, and divided in front into three 

 lobes, of which the lateral lobes are of a somewhat triangular 

 shape, and blunt, while the central lobe is semi-ovate and apicu- 

 late; along the centre of the lip run keel-like elevated veins, 

 which terminate (on the central lobe) in three crenulated rhom- 

 boid plates. Column three-toothed at its apex, with a velvety 

 anther. — J. B. 



Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Front view of lip. 4. Side view of 

 ditto : — magnified. 



