nute grains, without any elastic web; he ranks it near 

 Vanilla, Sobralia, Epistepkium, etc. 



Descr. Stems fascicled, afoot to a foot and a half high, 

 terete, leafy, swelling into nodose tubers at the base ; below 

 clothed with green, sud orbicular, reflexed, leafy sheaths, 

 which gradually pass upwards into the leaves. Leaves sub- 

 distichous, sheathing, eight to ten inches long, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, glaucous below, membranous, and waving. 

 Flower two to three inches broad, on a short terminal raceme, 

 enclosed at first in sheathing spathes, four to five inches across. 

 Perianth-mjments equal, spreading, linear-lanceolate, pale 

 bright rod-purple, white towards the centre. Lip large, 

 three-lobed, white at the base, deep purple beyond it, with 

 a yellow-crested disk ; lateral lobes short, obtuse, toothed ; 

 middle one broadly oblong, flabellate, crumpled, lobulate, 

 and toothed; base produced into a short, straight, thick, 

 notched spur. Column with toothed wings at the apex. — 

 J. D. II 



Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollinia, — all but 2 magnified. 



