by one inch and a half in diameter, pitcher-shaped, but sud- 
denly contracted into a blunt conical apex, constricted 
below the middle, rounded at the base, deeply longitudinally 
6-8-lobed, the lobes semicylindric and forming rounded 
prominences at thé broadest part; very dark green, reti- 
culated with dark brown. Leaves not seen. Scapes one 
to two inches high, closely sheathed; lower sheaths short, 
inflated, green spotted with brown, uppermost long, lax, 
membranous. Ovary slender, one inch long. lowers two 
to two inches and a half across. Sepals narrow-oblong, pale 
rose-coloured, with white edges. Petals narrower and paler. 
Lip nearly white, with a very short gibbosity (mentum) at 
the base ; lateral lobes convolute, gradually dilating into the 
open, reflexed, suborbicular, 2-fid middle lobe, which is white, 
with a few pale-red purple spots, and has ciliate toothed mar- 
gins; disc of lip streaked with purple, and bearing three 
slender crests along the middle, which are shortly produced 
on to the middle lobe, each crested with a series of short 
flattened prominent papille. Colwmn very slender, apex 3- 
lobed, lateral lobes notched, middle obtusely irregularly 
toothed. Rostellum 3-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip:—both magnified. 
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