The beautiful specimen here figured was imported by W. 
Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., who flowered it in May of the 
present year, at Reigate. 
Drscr. Wholly covered with soft villous spreading hairs, 
most copious on the inflorescence. Stems tufted, usually 
ascending, six to ten inches long, as thick as the little finger 
at the base, leafy. Leaves lanceolate, acute, spreading and 
recurved, five to seven inches long, one and one-third 
inches to one and two-third inches broad, hairy on both sur- 
faces, many-nerved. Racemes axillary, pendulous, five to 
six inches long, many-flowered ; rachis zigzag, sheathed with 
short broad imbricate scales at the base ; floral bracts large, 
one-half to one inch long, broadly orbicular-ovate, white, with 
a broad blood-red margin. Flowers sessile. Ovary very short. 
Perianth orange-red, curved, an inch long, nearly half an 
inch diameter. Sepals connate, lanceolate, tips abruptly 
recurved. Spur very broad, obtuse, half as long as the 
sepals. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, white, their tips 
projecting between the sepals. Lip white, basal portion 
with two long, broad, obtuse auricles ; terminal portion nearly 
as broad, suborbicular, erose; disk of lip with three to five 
obscure blunt ridges between the auricles, which are continued 
as a villous prominence on to the disk of the basal portion. 
Column broad below, narrowed upwards, very concave in 
front. Anthers small; pollinia, long, slender.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, flower with the sepals removed ; fig. 2, lip ; fig. 3, column and half 
of spur; fig. 4, front view of column ; fig. 5, pollinia :—all magnified. 
