to two inches long, rough. Flowers six to seven inches 
in diameter. Sepals linear-lanceolate, spreading and re- 
curved, nearly one inch broad in the broadest part, pure 
white. Petals shorter, broader and more oblong than the 
sepals, obtuse, margins undulate from beyond the middle 
to the tip, pure white. Lip with the ventricose tube two 
inches long, embracing the column; limb two and a half 
inches in diameter, spreading and recurved, nearly circular 
in outline with a deep notch in front, margin deeply irre- 
gularly notched and waved, white, with the disk and interior 
of the tube suffused with golden yellow and afew brownish 
stripes. Column an inch long, deeply three-toothed at the 
tip.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front, and 2, Lack view of column ; 3and 4, pollinia:—al/ enlarged. _ 
