sheathing bracteas at the joints. Raceme seven to ten- 
flowered. Flowers rather more than an inch long, spread- 
ing. Sepals, petals, and lip erect or closed, the two former 
equal, linear-lanceolate, rather acute than acuminate, deep 
rose colour. Lip rather longer than the sepals, and almost 
enclosed by them, oblong, yellow, three-lobed, the two side 
lobes short, obtuse, incurved, purplish, the middle one oval, 
reflexed, crisped, blotched at the margin with deep purple ; 
the whole disk marked with five elevated, waved lines. 
Column enclosed by the lip, grooved in front. Anther-case 
purple. Pollen-masses eight, yellow. 
Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. The same, the Lip bent back, 3. Anther- 
case. 4, Pollen-masses :—magnified, 
