three feet long, by about half an inch broad, narrowed 

 into a sub-acute point, base not dilated. Peduncle short, 

 decurved, clothed with imbricating, distichous, oblong, 

 acute, cymbiform sheaths, one to two inches long. Raceme 

 pendulous, loosely ten- to twenty-flowered. Bracts small, 

 subuhite. Pedicels with the ovary one to one and a half 

 inch long. Flowers two inches broad. Sepals and petals 

 spreading and recurved, linear-oblong, acute, similar in 

 form and colour, but the petals smaller, greyish white, 

 with a blood-red, central streak. Lip about half as long 

 as the sepals ; side-lobes short, rounded, as long as the 

 column, white, streaked with blood-red; terminal ovate, 

 revolute, white with a yellow blotch, disk with two 

 glandular- hairy ridges between the side-lobes. — J. D. H, 



FiiT. 1, lip with one side-lobe removed; 2, culumn; 3 and 4, pollinia :— a^Z 

 enlarged. 



