clined. Flowers very numerous, crowded on a branched 

 nodding panicle, two inches long from the tip of the lip to 

 that of the upper sepal ; bracts scarious, acuminate, much 

 shorter than the ovary. Sepals and petals nearly equal and 

 similar, obovate-spathulate, much waved and crisped, pale 

 reddish-brown, fading into yellow at the tips. Lip oblong- 

 quadrate or subcuneate, 2-lobed at the apex, margins recurved, 

 obscure 3- to 5-keeled and 2-toothed at the very base ; mar- 

 gins broadly white ; disk rose-purple, with a broad, pale, 

 yellow-brown blotch below the middle, and a suborbicular 

 white one at the base. Column very short, purple. — 

 J.D.H. '' '• ' ' 



Fig. 1, Column and base of lip ; and 2, pollen-masses : — both magnified. 



