two or three, linear-lanceolate, appressed to the scape, and 
coloured like it. Raceme many- and lax-flowered ; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, as long as the ovaries or longer; ovaries 
half an inch long, erecto-patent. Flowers half an inch 
across the lateral sepals, and about as long from the base 
of the dorsal sepal to the tip of the lip. Lateral sepals 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, green, spreading; dorsal smaller, 
erect. Petals oblong, erect, white, tip obtuse, amethyst 
purple. Lip about half an inch long, cuneately-obovate 
from a broad base, side lobes obscure; terminal rather 
dilated, shortly 4-lobed, margins white, undulate; disk 
amethystine, puberulous towards the base, with two 
short obscure ridges; spur laterally flattened, white, 
obtuse, brown, about as long as the sepals. Column short, 
stout, with prominent sides ; rostellum prominent, trowel- 
shaped, upcurved, with deflexed sides; staminodes repre- 
sented by two sessile glands; anther suberect, with the 
cells incurved below. Pollinia pyriform, pedicel produced 
into a dorsal wing along the lower half; glands small.— 
J. U, i, : 
removed ; 2, side view of the same; 3 and 4, pollinia ;—AJ/ enlarged. 
ee : i . 
Fig. 1, Front view of flower, with the sepals, petals, and half the lip 
