branched and rooting at the nodes, clothed below with short 
pale sheaths, and above with subdistichous leaves, as thick 
as a goosequill. Leaves four to five inches long, spreading 
and recurved, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, nerveless, keeled at 
the back. Scape terminal, very slender, inclined, many- 
flowered. Flowers lax, two inches in diameter, purple except 
the white disk of the lip. Bracts green, slender, longer or 
shorter than the slender pedicel, but never exceeding the 
ovary, which is also slender. Sepals spreading and recurved, 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals similar, but broader. . 
Lip oblong-quadrate, apiculate, flat with subserrate edges ; 
claw adnate to the lower one-third of the column ; disk white 
with two keels. Column ‘clavate, narrowly winged, purple, 
three-lobed at the top.—J. D. H. 7 
Fig. 1, Column :—magnified. 
