flower-spikes. Mlower-spikes drooping, two or three inches 
long, very slender and graceful, bearing (on their upper por- 
tion) from ten to twenty elegant little flowers. Sepals seta- 
ceous (the two lower ones joined together), white. Petals 
rather wider than the sepals, lilac, with blue spots towards 
their base. ip free, narrow, slightly unguiculate, arrow- 
shaped near its apex, ecarinate, resembling the petals in co- 
lour. Column about half the length of the lip, angular near 
the middle. Anther very large, overlying nearly one-half of 
the column.—J. B. 
Fig. 1. Flower, seen in front. 2. Ditto, seen sideways. 8. Side-view 
of lip and column. 4. Lip. 5 and 6. Pollen-masses and gland :—mag- 
nified. 
