base cordate and amplexicaul, tip sub-acute, recurved, 
pale green, keeled beneath. Peduncles eight to ten inches 
long, erect, bearing two or three tubular, appressed, obtuse 
sheaths. .Raceme one to eight inches long; rhachis very 
stout, compressed, few- or many-flowered; bracts dis- 
tichous, ovate, obtuse, fleshy. lowers very shortly pedi- 
celled, about an inch and a half broad, pale rose-lilac. 
Sepals and petals sub-equal, ovate, sub-acute. Lip much 
shorter than the sepals, shortly clawed, saccate ; lateral 
lobes short, obtuse, incurved, terminal much broader, 
rounded; disk with a broad, linear, truncate, pubescent 
callus. Pollinia two perfect, oblong, each with an imper- 
fect, much smaller one, adnate to it, seated on a lobulate 
gland.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, lip; 2, vertical section of same; 3, column ; 4, anther; 5 and 6, pollinia: 
—All enlarged. 
