Descr. Leaves three to five inches long, by one-half to 
three-fourths of an inch broad, sessile, pale green, keeled, 
_ tip bidentate; basal sheaths half an inch long, truncate. 
_ Scapes many, one-flowered, shorter than the leaves, slen- 
der, pendulous, green speckled with black ; sheaths one or 
two, short, appressed, acute. Bract one-third of an inch 
long, sheathing the short ribbed ovary. Perianth broadly 
campanulate, half an inch long, three-fourths of an inch 
across the mouth, nearly terete, symmetrical, soft and 
fleshy, white without and within except a ring of carmine 
short irregular spots and streaks towards the base, which 
is yellow, and a red spot at the base of each thread of the 
perianth, lobes very broad and short, suddenly contracted 
into slender yellow tails twice as long as the tubes of the 
perianth and speckled with red ; base within hairy. Petals 
as long as the column, linear-oblong, obtuse, caruncled on 
the disk towards the spur. Lip short, fleshy, very shortly 
clawed, gibbously saccate; hypochile broadly oblong with 
rounde:’ sides, two keels along the disk, and a caruncled 
broed ayex, epichile short, broader than long, saccate, 
smooth within, margins quite entire. Column with a 
toothed apex.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1, Base of perianth, petals, 
lip, and col ; 2, petal; 3, lip; 4, column ; 
- 5, pollinia :— ald enlarged. P: olumn peta p 
