gradually smaller without shrivelling much; young bulbs 
are formed at the base, or near the apex of those of the 
preceding year. Leaves arising from the apex of the bulb 
after the flowers, lanceolate, plicato-nervose. Scape (above 
three feet high) terminal, but from its appearing in the very 
young state of the bulb, seeming to be lateral, the’ old bulb 
only being conspicuous, purplish and spotted at the base, 
with a few distant, sheathing scales, greener above, subra- 
mous. Raceme (above twenty-flowered) gradually elon- 
gating. Flowers large, very handsome, each springing 
from the axil of a small, acute bractea, of a nearly uniform 
reddish-lilac colour, only the base of the labellum and its 
ridges being white. Sepals (an inch and a half long) lan- 
ceolato-elliptical, nearly equal in size, the uppermost being 
rather the narrowest, all attenuated at the base and spread- 
ing. Lip much broader than the sepals, the lateral lobes 
erect, rounded, the central broad-linear, notched, plaited — 
_ transversely ; disk with six waved, somewhat branched 
lamelle, those at the sides being the shortest, and passing 
into diverging veins. Colwmn more than half as long as 
the sepals, projecting into the centre of the flower, some- 
what clavate, rounded on the upper, flat on the lower side, 
with a single tooth on each edge at its middle, a small ter- 
minal tooth, and two others on each edge immediately 
below the apex, the lower being rounded and decurrent. 
Anther-case rounded, notched at its apex, two-celled, each 
cell divided longitudinally. Pollen-masses four, parallel, 
each two-lobed, laid along a thin plate spread above the 
stigmatic surface. Germen (an inch and a half long) twist- 
ed, spreading at right angles to the rachis. Graham. 
