lated, terminated with the remains of the former year’s leaves. 
Leaves appearing after the flowers, two or more from a young 
pseudo-bulb, large, a foot to a foot and a half long, four to five 
inches broad, broad-lanceolate, much acuminated, membrana- 
ceous, striated. Scape radical, from the base of an old pseudo- 
bulb, a foot or more long, villous with patent hairs, bearing a 
few sheathing glabrous scales. Spike lax, bearing six or mote, 
large, very white flowers. Sepals and petals much spreading, 
broad-lanceolate, very acute, nearly uniform. Zip also very patent, 
the base united to the whole length of the column, suborbicular 
in outline, but deeply three-cleft ; the side /odes oblong, obtuse, 
waved; the middle /obe broad-cuneate, again divided into two 
divaricating obtuse /odes: the disc of the labellum is orange- 
yellow and striated: the spur shorter than the lip, filiform, in- 
flexed. Anther sunk into the apex of the column, hemispherical, 
with a broad blunt projecting beak. Pollen-masses eight, co- 
hering in fours with a filiform, bipartite sta// or gland. 
Fig. 1, 2. Anther-case, upper and under side. 3. Pollen-masses :—all magnified. 
