fibres, which spring from the base of the unbranched, more or 
less pendent, a foot and more long, terete, curved, striated stems ; 
the young ones clothed with a few sheathing lanceolate gla- 
brous /eaves. The older and flowering stems are as thick as one’s 
little finger, and in part sheathed with the withered membra- 
naous bases of the old leaves; and from these, opposite to where 
a leaf has been, the rather large white flowers appear solitary, 
each subtended by a small dractea. Sepals and petals much 
spreading, lanceolate, rather obtuse, quite glabrous. zp large, 
almost orbicular, but tapering into a short claw, cucullate, white 
with a few orange streaks, finely fringed at the margin, downy 
on both sides; at the base above is a nectariferous cavity, and 
three obscure lamella. Column short, conical, but running 
down to where the labellum unites with it, and there forming an 
obtuse spur to the flower. Azther-case hemispherical, downy. 
Fig. 1, Column and anther. 2. Lip :—smagnified. 
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