deflexed. Zip very large, the principal ground-colour yellow, va- 
riously tinged and blotched and veined with rich blood-red or 
_ pitch colour ; the apex white. The form is oblong; it is three- 
_ lobed, the lateral Zodes small, resembling ears, the latter and the 
margin of the broad two-lobed middle /ode or segment fringed. 
Two long crests run nearly the whole length of the Zip; these 
are copiously fringed with pedunculated (peduncles often bifid), 
stellated hairs, and are beautiful objects for the microscope. 
Column large, semiterete, winged, crested at the top, below which 
summit is sunk the anther-case, enclosing the four pollen-masses, 
— united by a large gland. 
__ Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip, front view. 4. Fringe 
_ of the crests of the lip :—magnified. 
