Peduncle from the base of the pseudobulb, short, stout, 
curved, one to two inches long, covered with sheathing ovate- 
acuminate bracts, two-flowered. Flowers one and a quarter 
inch diameter, pale externally, internally white, with stripes 
of clear red-purple (sometimes broken up into spots) in the 
sepals and petals internally. Sepals arched ; dorsal ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate; lateral much broader at the base, some- 
what falcate and decurved. Petals like the dorsal sepal, but 
smaller and more acuminate. Jip trowel-shaped, recurved, 
cordate, with recurved auricles at the base, rather fleshy, 
spotted with purple; claw slender.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Ovary, column, and lip. 2. Under side of lip. 8 and 4. Pollen: 
—all magnified. : 
