nearly cylindrical, fleshy, acuminated, recurved leaf, with 
a groove on the upper side, of a glaucous green colour. 
From the base of this leaf arises a short bracteated peduncle, 
with a solitary flower, and a very long, glabrous, cylindrical, 
pedunculiform germen. Sepals and petals pure, white, 
linear-oblong, spreading, rather acute, about an inch and a 
half long. Lp spreading, acute, white, three-lobed, the 
two lateral lobes ovate, greenish, the middle one very long, 
the sides a little reflexed, the disk with a purple blotch 
near the base. Column short, thick, deeply furrowed in 
front. Anther-case hemispherical, deeply two-lobed in front, 
two-celled, dark purple, the lobes membranous, brownish. 
Pollen-mass of six flat yellow lobes, two forming the base, 
the four superior in two pairs. 
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. 4. Anther-cases. 5. 6. Pollen-mass :— 
magnified, 
