sheaths. Leaf solitary, sessile, three to six inches long, 
by three-quarters to one and a quarter inches broad, 
narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, thickly fleshy, concave 
above, obtusely keeled beneath, pale green on both surfaces. 
Peduncle shorter than the leaves, erect, flexuous, naked, 
two- to three-flowered, green; bracts minute, triangular ; 
pedicels with the ovary two to threeinches long. Flowers 
two inches broad across the petals, sepals and petals spread- 
ing, pale, mauve-purple, lip golden-yellow. Sepals linear- 
oblong, obtuse. Petals as long, but rather narrower. 
Lip rather shorter than the sepals, 3-lobed; side-lobes 
broadly oblong, erect, margins recurved crenate and un- 
dulate ; midlobe ovate, obtuse, sides involute crisped and 
waved, disk sometimes stained with brown towards the 
base. Column short, streaked with purple. Anther 
hemispheric—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2, side, and 3, front view of column; 4, anther; 5, pollinia; 
—All enlarged. 
