to four lanceolate, wavy, striated, somewhat membrana- 
ceous leaves. From the base of this bulb descends a scape, 
six to seven incheslong, clothed with membranaceous scales, 
and bearing about five large, handsome, globose, fleshy, fra- 
grant flowers of a pale, greenish-white without, within tinged 
with blush, and sprinkled with purple dots. Sepals round- 
ish, rather obtuse, very concave, united at the base, espe- 
cially the two lower ones, under the lip: petals rather 
smaller, but similar in form and texture. Lip of a very 
remarkable shape, thick and fleshy, dingy white, spotted 
with purple, jointed in the middle ; the lower portion with 
a membranous, rounded lobe on each side, and its disk re- 
markably cristate, having a thick, elevated projection : the 
upper joint or lobe erect, ligulate, its disk deeply grooved, 
the apex recurved. Column semiterete, standing forward, 
with a horizontal lobe or wing on each side, singularly 
dilated downwards below, and gradually passing into the 
lip. Anther-case depressed. Pollen-masses obovate. 
Fig 1. View of the base of a Flower, to show the combined Sepals. 2. 
Front view of the Column and Lip, the floral coverings being cut away. 
3. Side view of ditto. 4, Side view of the same, the upper lobe of the 4 
(fig. 5.) being removed. 6. 7. Anther. 8 9. Pollen-masses.—Fig. 2 to 
_ more or less magnified. 
