slender, subterete, internodes almost concealed by the scari- 

 ous pale brown sheath. Leaves few, on shorter branches, 

 three to four inches long, an inch to an inch and a half 

 broad, narrow oblong, acuminate, pale bright green, with 

 brown apices. Flowers numerous, collected into subglobose 

 corymbs of three inches diameter at the nodes, rose-purple, 

 vanilla-scented, an inch in diameter ; rhachis of corymb and 

 pedicels deep red-purple, bracts minute. Sepals and petals 

 nearly equal, oblong, subacute, transparent. Lip longer and 

 broader than the sepals, obovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, 

 glabrous, nearly plane, quite entire. Spur stout, straight,' 

 almost tumid, contracted at the obtuse apex. Column verv 

 short.—/. I). H. 3 



Fig. 1. Column lip, and spur :— magnified. 



