gradually acuminate, dark green above, paler and glaucous 
beneath. Raceme very large, pendulous, many-flowered ; 
peduncle one foot long. Flowers horizontal, two and a half 
inches diameter, whitish externally ; perianth lobes ovate, 
subacute, the outer rather smaller, one and a half inches long, 
somewhat concave, inner surface pale yellow, entirely covered 
with oblong dark-red spots. ip curved upwards, rather 
longer than the perianth-lobes, narrow, gradually dilated 
from a linear fleshy base quarter of an inch broad, to a very 
concave or saccate incurved orbicular mucronate apex, which 
is irregularly toothed on the margin ; base of lip dark purple, 
rising into two calli; inner surface yellow with red streaks ; 
outer covered with spots like the perianth segments, except 
on the dilated apex, which is a dirty lilac. Column short, 
green inside, curved, so that the ovate acuminate anther 
comes under the concave apex of the lip.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column and lip:—magnified. 
