in decurved racemes. It is a striking addition to the group, 
and as, like the other members, it is not difficult to grow, 
it ought to share their popularity as garden orchids. 
Descriprion.—LHerb, epiphytic. Stems long, terete, 
channelled, leafy, 2-3 ft. long, clothed with membranous 
sheaths. Leaves ovate-oblong, subacute, coriaceous, 4-5 in. 
long, 14-23 in. wide. acemes lax, axillary, pendulous, 
many-flowered, about 1 ft. long; rhachis clothed at the base 
with imbricate tubular sheaths ; bracts linear-oblong, obtuse, 
almost membranous, 4-1} in. long; pedicels slender, 
13-2 in. long. lowers large, pale rose, the disk of the lip 
with a large orange blotch. Sepals spreading, wide elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse, about 1 in. long. Petals elliptic-ovate, 
obtuse, 1 in. long. Lip shortly clawed, suborbicular, 
obtuse, nearly 1 in. long, the margin finely toothed, the 
disk velvety, the lateral lobes involute. Column broad, 
oblong. 
| Fig. 1, part of lip; 2, column ; 3, pollinia; 4, whole plant:—1-3 enlarged, 
4 much reduced, 
