green; bracts small, appressed. Peduncles with the ovary 
one to one and a half inches long. Flower one and a half inches 
in diameter. Sepals and petals subequal and similar, oblong, 
acute, pale violet-red in the centre, with broad white 
margins. Zip one-third of an inch broad; neck short, 
stout, quadrate, yellow, deeply hollowed in front, with two 
erect calli; limb subquadrate, two-lobed at the apex, angles 
rounded, the basal lateral lobes small, reflexed, pale violet- 
red, with two confluent semilunar white patches at the base, 
on each of which is a concentric red-brown band, and a few 
spots of the same colour on a golden-yellow ground. Column 
short, thick, without wings or appendages.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Side view of Labellum :—magnijied. 
