half to three-fourths of an inch long, slender. Bracts as 
long, oblong, acute, convolute, pale red-brown, very per- 
sistent. Perianth white, nearly globose, the sepals and 
petals being incurved and dorsally very convex, about two- 
thirds of an inch in diameter. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 
acute; lateral connate. Petals smaller than the sepals, 
lanceolate, acuminate, at length recurved. Lip rather 
longer than tlie sepals, three-lobed; base rounded, hardly 
saccate; lateral lobes concealing the column, obtuse; — 
terminal short, very broadly ovate, revolute, disk with 
three obscure basal keels. Column short, with an orbicular, 
dilated, crenate summit.—J. D. H, 
Sie 
pn)” ie 
Fig. 1, lip; 2, column; 3, anther :—all exlarged. 
