mature pseudobulb. Leaves two, six to eight inches long, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into a petiole two 

 to three inches long, bright green, strongly nerved beneath, 

 margins more or less waved. Peduncle from the base of 

 the pseudobulb, slender, with the rhachis of the raceme 

 pale green, minutely dotted with dark purple. Raceme a 

 foot long, pendulous, loosely many-flowered. Bracts three- 

 quarters of an inch long, cymbiform, acute, pale brown, 

 caducous. Flowers two inches broad, pedicel as long as 

 the bract ; ovary short, green, its six ribs crenulate, and 

 clotted with dark purple. Sepals an inch long, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, white. Petals as long, but 

 much narrower, white. Lip paie brown, darker round 

 the margins and tips of the lobes ; side-lobes short, 

 rounded, mid-lobe orbicular-ovate, obtuse, disk with fine 

 crested ridges, extending from the base to about the 

 middle of the mid-lobe, three of them furnished at the base 

 with a short, erect fimbriate lamella. Column yellow, 

 broadly dilated at the top into a truncate crenulate hood. 

 —J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Lip ; 2, column ; 3, anther ; 4, pollinia \—All enlarged. 



