Boots of erect, tufted, tortuous fibres. Stem six to ten inches 

 high, leafy to the top. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, plaited, three to five inches long, rarely one and 

 a half inch broad. Bracts erect, leaf-like, exceeding the flower. 

 Sepals one inch long, slightly pubescent, green, with brown- 

 purple nerves and tip ; dorsal ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 twisted ; two lateral connate into an ovate-lanceolate, two- 

 toothed blade placed under the lip. Petals larger than the 

 sepals, of the same colour, narrow, twisted, spreading. Zip 

 two-thirds of an inch long, oblong, rounded at the tip, inflated, 

 rather flattened at the sides, white with purple spots round 

 the mouth and within opposite the mouth, neck villous and 

 yellow within. Slaminode yellow, spotted with purple, ovate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Top of ovary and column; 2, top of column; 3 lip:— all 

 magnified. 



