Descr. Stems long, pendent, branched ; the branches 
clavate, some leafless, others with a tuft of foliage from the 
extremity of the young shoots, which curve upwards. 
Leaves broadly lanceolate, membranous, recurved, striated. 
Raceme from one of the leafy scales which clothe the lower 
part of the young branches, pendent, many - flowered. 
Sepals and petals ovate, moderately spreading, white at the 
base, the rest yellow, the two petals with deeper yellow 
spots within. Lip white, mottled with yellow, and with 
red streaks, recurved, three-lobed, the two lateral lobes 
incurved, the terminal one roundish, crisped : at the base 
are five elevated, velvety, yellow lines, sprinkled with red 
dots. Column short, white, yellow dotted with red within: 
above the stigma is a white, projecting lip, on the base of 
which lies a part of the pollen, which is extremely curious, 
and better understood by the figure, than by the description. 
Professor Linptey, the learned author of the Genus, con- 
siders it as “ equivalent to eight pollen-masses, of which 
the straps of connection, such as exist in all Eprpenprea, 
are run together in two plates, from an expansion of the 
edges of which the masses appear to spring.” Anther-case 
hemispherical, oblique. 
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