drical, inflated scale, tawny, and tinged with red. Leaves soli- 
tary, broad-lanceolate, rather obtuse, striated, tapering into a 
long footstalk, which is enclosed by the sheathing scale. Pe- 
duncle arising from the top of the pseudobulb, curved down- 
wards, slender, filiform, sheathed below (as the petioles are), 
and bearing a graceful, pendent, elongated, linear-oblong spike 
of crowded, distichous, white, sessile flowers. In a young 
state these spikes almost resemble those of Pholidota. Bracteas 
lanceolate, convolute, white, at length tawny. Sepals and rather 
smaller petals uniform, spreading, oblong, acuminate. Lip 
small, projecting, and recurved ; three-lobed, lateral lobes acute, 
curved forward, middle lobe rotundate: the disc of the lip has 
two oblong lobes or thick lamelle. Colwmn short, compressed, 
having on each side, near the base, a long spiniform tooth: the 
apex winged, bifid, and laciniated. Anther-case conico-cucullate, 
placed just above the small stigma. 
Fig. 1. Front view of.a flower. 2. Column. 3. Labellum :—magnified. 
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