_ a-half to one and three-quarter inch broad, narrow ovoid, com- 
pressed, green, grooved when old or dry. Leaves six to nine 
inches long, between ensiform and lanceolate, acuminate, 
striated, keeled, deep green, paler beneath. ' Panicle sometimes 
twelve feet long, peduncle and rachis green, terete, as thick 
as a crow-quill and upwards, very flexuous but rigid, branches 
six inches long. Bracts one-half to three-quarter inch long, 
oblong-lanceolate, brown, dry. Pedicel together with the 
slender ovary one inch long. Perianth one and a-half to one 
and three-quarter inch in diameter. Sepals and Petals very 
similar, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, or somewhat spa- 
thulate, waved and crisped, white with violet-red bars from 
the base to the middle. Zip much smaller than the petals, 
base broad subquadrate, irregularly thickened and warted, 
the centre yellow, the edges barred; from this base the lip 
suddenly contracts into a triangular thick reflexed somewhat 
concave limb, which is white speckled with dull-red. Column 
short, tumid, and grooved in part, with a horizontal process 
on each side at the tip—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, View of ovary, column, and lip :—magnified. 
