Descb. Rhizome very stout, creeping, as thick as a 

 swan's quill, clothed with short brown sheaths. Vseu&o- 

 bulbs variable in size, when full-grown upwards of three 

 inches long by nearly two broad, ovoid-oblong, green, deeply 

 eight- to ten-grooved, naked except a few bristly remains of 

 former sheaths at the base. Leaves two, six to ten inches 

 long by two broad, elliptic- lanceolate, acuminate, strongly 

 five-nerved, narrowed into a petiole two to three inches 

 long Scape from the base of the pseudobulb, very stout, 

 decurved then ascending, densely clothed with closely 

 imbricating short green rounded sheaths from the base 

 to the flowers. Raceme two to three inches long, 

 slender, erect, three- to four-flowered ; bracts three- 

 quarters of an inch long, lanceolate, brown, deciduous ; 

 pedicels with ovary about as long as the bracts. Flowers 

 nearly two inches broad, pure white except the brown 

 sides of the lip, and its yellow terminal lobes. Sepals 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute. Petals as long, narrowly 

 linear, obtuse. Lip narrow, side lobes very short, disk 

 with two crenate ridges ; midlobe small, ovate, revolute. 

 Column three-lobed at the top ; anther conical, obtuse.— 

 J. D. H. 



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