exceeded my warmest anticipations. The present was one 
among the rarer species which I was glad to have the op- 
portunity of figuring from the growing plant. 
Descr. Bulbs broadly ovate or rotundate, compressed, 
furrowed, clustered, sometimes arising from the base of 
a leaf; but the leaves are generally produced, three or 
four together, from the extremity of the bulb. They are 
broadly elliptico-lanceolate, striated and waved. Scapes 
radical, single-flowered, partially clothed with red-brown, 
sheathing scales. Flowers large, handsome. Calyx of 
three ovato-elliptical spreading leaves, the two lateral ones 
combined below, and projecting into an obtuse but distinct 
spur: their colour is dingy green, spotted with purple. 
Petals standing forward: two lateral ones white, obovate, 
concave ; lower one or lip bright-yellow, with a few pur- 
plish spots, three-lobed, its two lateral lobes incurved, the 
intermediate one reflexed, ovato-acuminate, the margins 
waved : in the disk of the labellum, towards the base, is a 
yellow gland. Column elongated, white, marked with pur- 
plish lines. Anther hemispherical. 
Fig. 1. Lip, nat. size. 2. Column :—magnified. 
