Descr. Stem a foot and more high, sending out fleshy, 
vermicular roots from near the base, about as thick as one’s 
finger, terete, bearing several alternate, coriaceous, ob- 
longo-elliptical, rather acute leaves, from four to nearly 
six inches long. ‘This stem bears at its apex a long, 
branched peduncle, distinctly furrowed, the branches (ex- 
cept the terminal one) deflexed, all of them clothed with 
dense, spiked flowers of a greenish-brown colour; the lip 
and column alone being almost white. Perianth spread- 
ing. Sepals oblongo-obovate, rather obtuse. Petals rather 
shorter than the sepals, very narrow, spathulate. Lp with 
its lower part united to the clavato-cylindrical column, the 
upper part projecting beyond the column, large, orbicular, 
three-lobed, the middle lobe very short, and again two- 
lobed, the lobes or segments ovate, acute, spreading : at 
the base are two oval tubercles immediately beneath the 
apex of the column. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a Flower. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnijied. 
