patent, lanceolate, fleshy, having a white ground, variously 
streaked, and blotched, and spotted with dark chocolate-brown : 
the intermediate less covered with brown, and with more regular 
transverse bands. ip very curious in form, almost entirely of 
a rich chocolate-purple colour, very much smaller than the petals 
or sepals, somewhat ovate in circumscription, shortly unguicu- 
late, thick and fleshy, deeply two-lobed; two lateral lobes oblong, 
acute, subacinaciform; middle lobe rhomboidal (7.e. with an angle 
or tooth on each side), terminated at the apex with a crest, a 
tuft or pencil of club-shaped, downy, white fimbrize: the disc 
is curiously crested, and there are four long-pedicellated glands 
on the claw. Column yellow-green, banded with chocolate near 
the base, club-shaped, semiterete, with a large projecting tooth 
on each side below the anther: between which teeth, in front, is 
the very long, prominent rostellum. Anther-case hemispherical. 
Pollen-masses obovate, from a long caudicle ; gland small, tri- 
angular. 
Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Labellum, 4. Fimbria 
from the apex of the labellum :—magnified. 
