quarter inch broad, thickly coriaceous, linear-oblong, acute, 
convex above, with a deep central furrow, margins recurved, 
green above, beneath pale and faintly streaked with rusty 
yellow. Racemes four- to six-flowered, pendulous from a 
slender curved peduncle of about the same length ; sheaths 
few, small, distant, scarious; bracts one-sixth to one-fourth 
of an inch long, membranous or minute and tooth-like. 
Flowers distichous, nearly two inches long from the tip of 
the dorsal sepal to the end of the lip, pale rose-coloured 
speckled with red; pedicel and ovary together nearly an 
inch long. Dorsal sepal oblong, acute, pale; two lateral 
sepals combined into a white boat-shaped acuminate lamina 
under the lip, from the base of the back of which descend 
a long nearly straight or curved spur two inches long, 
concealed within which again are the two slender spurs of 
the lip itself, which extend for more than half its length. 
Petals about as long as the dorsal sepal, oblong, acuminate, 
brightly speckled with red. Lip very large, shortly clawed, 
claw with two small side auricles and a mesial longitudinal 
ridge; blade of the lip transversely oblong, narrowed at 
the base, cleft at the broad rounded end, the cleft acute, 
its lobes short, acute, margins waved; the lip is a deeper 
rose-colour than the petals, and has larger and less vivid 
spots; the spurs of the lip are very slender, and papillose 
towards the tips, which are shortly villous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column, 
and cl f li - “ ' ceceies 
Valdracd: aw of lip, &c.; 2, anther-case; 3 and 4, pollinia :—all 
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