dark brown. LPerianth pubescent externally, white with 
red-brown veins on the free portions of the sepals and petals. 
Sepals united into a tube half an inch long, witha gibbosity 
at the base on the anterior face ; free portions spreading, 
lanceolate, finely acuminate. Petals inserted at the mouth 
of the calycine tube, semi-lanceolate, acuminate, erect; 
forming with the posterior sepal an ovate shallow erect 
hood. Lip very small, inserted at the very base of the 
calyx-tube; claw long, concealed in the tube; limb ver 
small, recurved, lanceolate and contracted at the middle on 
each side, veined like the sepals and petals.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, éalyx tube, column, and lip (very inaccurately represented) ; 
3, column showing the stigma ; 4, anther ; 5 and 6, pollen masses :——all magnitied. 
