beneath, with strong nerves. Pedunele from the base of 
the pseudobulb, four to five inches long, decurved, very 
stout, flexuous, green, with brown-streaked sheaths, of 
which the lower are short, appressed, the upper nearly an 
inch long, loose, lanceolate. Spike pendulous, few-fid. ; 
rhachis stout, flexuous, green; bracts like the upper 
sheaths of the peduncle. Ovary short, curved, green. 
Perianth sub-campanulate, about two and a half inches 
broad, base rounded. Sepals inserted in the base of the 
column, broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, fleshy, green. 
Petals as long as the sepals, but much narrower, oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse, spreading and recurved, pale yellow- 
green. Lip adnate to the base of the column, rather 
shorter than the sepals, very thick, fleshy, nearly white, 
three-lobed ; lateral lobes short, ear-shaped, erect, with a 
revolute tongue-shaped process at the base; terminal lobe 
ovate, shortly stipitate, with a two-lobed callus on the 
stipes; disk five-grooved. Column very short, broad and 
thick, green. Anthers hemispheric, with an upcurved 
beak ; pollinia pyriform, on a long inflexed strap; gland 
orbicular.—J, D, H 
Fig. 1, upper part of ovary, lip, and colamn; 2, side view of column; 
3, hypochile with stipes of epichile ; 4 and 5, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
