oblong, green, subacute. Flowers two and a half inches 

 across the tips of the sepals, pale lilac, speckled with purple. 

 Tubular portion of the sepals short, slightly gibbous at the 

 base ; free portion of the dorsal sepal ovate, concave, 

 of the lateral more oblong and oblique ; all ending suddenly 

 in filiform tails more than twice their own length, of an 

 ochreous colour, speckled with purple; margins of the 

 sepals ciliolate. Petals obovate-spathulate, serrate. Lip 

 oblong, smooth, sides longitudinally reflexed from the mesial 

 line, terminated by a short oblong obtuse terminal lobe, which 

 is hooded in front, and upon the back of which the sides of 

 the body of the lip are produced. Column serrulate at the 

 apex. — -J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, vertical section of ditto ; 8, lip ; 4, petal : — all enlarged. 



