flowered. Flowers on slender pedicels, one and a half to two 
and a half inches long, pale flesh-coloured; the sepals faintly — 
speckled with red purple; the petals, column, front 
and sides of the lip nearly white and closely speckled with 
violet purple; the lower part of the lip golden -yellow. 
Dorsal sepal with a slender claw adnate to the column, and 
an ovate-lanceolate acuminate blade; lateral sepals very much 
broader, broadly oblong-ovate, acute, spreading, finally undu- 
late. Petals narrow linear, strongly falcate, adnate below 
to the sides of the column, terminating in slender filiform 
awns. Lip very large, laterally compressed, almost boat- 
shaped, obliquely truncate in front, the everted lips white 
and’ spotted with purple, and furnished each with a recurved 
slender awn; tip abruptly contracted into a stouter awn; 
sides smooth, shining. Colwmn very slender, curved.— 
Fi Dill, 
Fig. 1, Lip and column :—enlarged. 
