been collected by Wallis and others; the specimen here 
figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in May and June of 
the present year, and was received from Mr. Linden. 
Descr. Rhizomes stout, short, creeping, sending off many 
stout cylindric roots from its under surface. Pseudobulbs 
one half of an inch long, ovoid, green. Leaves two to three, 
at the tip of the pseudobulb, two to three inches long, 
spreading, oblong-lanceolate, acute, thickly coriaceous, keeled, 
clothed on both surfaces with a pale glaucous, green, waxy 
secretion, margins purple. Flowers two to three, on a short 
terminal peduncle, one and a half inch in diameter, dull 
yellow-green, mottled with dull violet-purple; peduncle very 
stout; bracts short, very coriaceous, concave, green; pedicel 
and ovary almost an inch long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, upper recurved, lateral, projecting forwards and 
downwards. Petais rather narrower, recurved. Jip with 
the claw adnate to the column; limb broadly ovate, then 
suddenly contracted to a lanceolate acuminate apex, sides of 
the broadest part membranous, green and waved, within this 
green edge is a broad purple belt, which unites with the 
purple tip; dise broadly nectariferous, white mottled with 
red-purple. Column short, very broadly conical, with the 
sides broadened into rounded coriaceous wings.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Fruit; and 2, side view of lip and column :—enlarged. 
