faint. Racemes equalling or exceeding the leaves, some- 

 times branched at the base; peduncle and radii's very 

 slender; bracts sheathing, floral short ovate wrote, those on 

 the peduncle longer, appressed. Flowers campanulate, six 

 to eight, remote, one half to three fourths of an inch in 

 diameter ; ovary and pedicel one quarter of an inch Ion"-. 

 Sepals and petals nearly equal and similar, the two lateral 

 sepals slightly connate at the base, all pale straw-coloured 

 with transverse bands of red-brown below the middle. Lip 

 of the same colour as the sepals and petals, rather shorter 

 than the sepals, clawed, 3-lobed ; lateral lobes suberect, 

 dimidiate-oblong, obtuse; terminal lobe transversely oblong 

 almost remform; disk transversely streaked with red, and 

 bearing a prominent 2-lobed callus. Column short, longi- 

 tudinally streaked with red.— J.D H 



Kg. l. Flower; 2, lateral view of Up hi.«1 column -.-both mlm*d. 



