the base, semi-cylindrical, subacute, dark green, under 
surface rounded, upper shelving from the margin to the 
deeply grooved mesial line, nerveless. Sheaths tubular, 
terete, appressed, mouth oblique. Flowers solitary or few 
on an axillary peduncle one to four inches long; bracts 
small, lanceolate, appressed ; pedicel and Ovary one inch 
long. Sepals spreading, one to one and a quarter inch 
long by one-fourth of an inch broad, linear, acute, very 
pale straw-coloured or greenish, margins below the middle — 
recurved. Petals rather smaller and narrower, acuminate, 
contracted at the base, white. Lip very large, transversely 
an oblong square with rounded angles, one and a half 
inches broad by one long, retuse in front with a short 
mucro, rather concave, surface even except two small 
semi-lunar depressions at the very base radiating from the 
base of the column; spur four to five inches long, pendulous, 
flexuous, yellow-brown. Column very short, white, two- 
winged anteriorly, wings rounded. ° Pollen-masses two, 
sessile on the top of an oblong stipes with incurved margins. 
—J. D. A, 
Fig. 1, Flower of the natural size ; 2, column and section of base of spur; 
8, column seen from the side; 4 and 5, back and front view of pollen-masses :—alt 
enlarged, 
