Hugh Low and Co. of Clapton in 1888, and flowered in 
January of this year. pee 
Descr. Stem two to three inches or more long, cylindric, 
as thick as the thumb, greenish-brown ; stem-roots short, 
white, one to two inches long, fully one-third of an inch in 
diameter. Leaves close set, very fleshy and rigid, narrowed 
from the semiamplexicaul base to the acute tip, the younger 
- four to six inches long and poinard-shaped with a groove 
down the centre, the older longer, six to eight inches, 
recurved, semi-terete with a concave face and rounded back, 
the margins rounded dark green. Peduncle stout, erect, 
with the strict simple or branched twenty to eighty 
- flowered racemes ten to twenty-four inches long ; peduncle - 
and rachis green blotched with red-brown. Bracts short, 
semicircular, white. Flowers one to one and a half inches 
diam. ; perianth white with faint rosy ridges on the lip ; 
pedicel with ovary one inch long, white streaked with rose 
on the ribs of the latter. Sepals and petals subsimilar, 
ovate-oblong, very obtuse. Lip nearly as long as the 
sepals, broadly cuneate, truncate, undulate; side lobes 
small, rounded, white; mid-lobe with decurved sides and 
- five ridges on the disk, which are not continued to the . 
_ Margin in front, and behind converge into a quadrate 
reflexed callus with crenate tip which lies between the 
_ lateral lobes; spur pointing backwards, short, conical, white. 
Column short, thick, white ; anther small, obtusely beaked ; 
| pollinia globose, strap linear, rather broad, gland broad, 
semicircular.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
