lip to the tips of the petals. Judging from the altitude at 
which it flourishes, it requires cool treatment. 
Descr.—A densely tufted plant, two to four inches high. 
Bulbs fusiform, longitudinally ribbed, ribs rounded and 
uneven, two- to four-leaved, one- to three-flowered. Leaves 
leathery, at first more or less beset with black hairs, ovate- 
oblong, one and a half to two inches long, obliquely and 
obtusely two-toothed at the tip. Flowers axillary, slightly 
overtopped by the leaves, one inch and a half to two inches 
in diameter, white with a vermilion lip. Sepals acute, 
lateral elongate-triangular, dorsal lanceolate. Petals 
spathulate, rounded at the tip. Lip three lobed ; lateral 
lobes short, rounded ; intermediate lobe broadly obcordate, 
recurved ; disc traversed by five warty ribs; sac obtuse.— 
We. Be 
Fig. 1, portion of upper surface of a leaf; 2, column; 38, anther-cap ; 
4, pollen :—all enlarged. 
