hard, fleshy /eaves, about the thickness of a goose-quill. Paniele 
lateral, from a branch of the stem, dichotomous, a span or more 
long, the ultimate branches very slender, filiform. Mowers 
white. Sepals linear-subulate, nearly uniform, at length reflexed, 
united below, and elongated into blunt spur, spotted with brown. 
Petals exceedingly long, projecting forward, linear-filiform, nearly 
straight, spotted near their base with minute dark-brown dots. 
Lip \anceolate, much acuminated, spirally reflexed, dotted with 
blood-colour ; the side lobes very short, the middle lobe large and 
elongated, much crisped, the disc bearing three waved /amelle. 
Column short, white, dotted with blood-colour. Anther-case he- 
mispherical. Pollen-masses oval, cereaceous. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Labellum. 38. Pollen-masses. 4. Column and spur :— 
magnified. 
