of the bulb. Scapes one or two from the same pseudo-bulb, 
and arising from its very base, shorter than the leaf, slender, wiry, 
erect, jomted in the lower half, and there sheathed with mem- 
branaceous brown scales, bearing at the top a radiating wmdéel of 
dark purple and white flowers. Ovary small, tapermg mto a 
short peduncle. Sepals extremely unequal: upper one small, 
ovate, very concave, greenish-white, sprinkled with purple, acute, 
the margin ciliated; lateral ones more than two inches long, 
pendent, the two meeting at the edges, so as to appear one, 
broad linear, dark purple-blood-colour, green at the tip, nearly 
white and spotted at the base. Peda/s in shape and colour re- 
sembling the upper sepal, but smaller and more ciliated, stand- 
ing forward, and, with the upper sepal, protecting the organs of 
fructification. Labellum articulated, as it were, on the prolonged 
base of the column, bent up against the front of the column, and 
itself ovate, fleshy, recurved, white, spotted. Column short, bi- 
cuspidate. Anther-case sunk between the two points, hemisphe- 
rical. Pollen-masses of four lobes, two small and two large. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column, anther, and labellum. 3. Pollen-masses :—al/ 
magnified, 
