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posita libera breviora undulata crispa. Tjabellum cucullatum 

 trilobum unguiculatum lamellatum et verrucis conicis obsitum. 

 Columna libera semiteres elongata basi paulo producta utrin- 

 que dente aucta, stigmate subquadrato, rostello brevi bifido, 

 anthera dorsalis ovata acuta bilocularis, connectivo crasso 

 intra cucullum carnosum clinandrii insertum. Pollinia 4 ge- 

 minata arcuata subfarinacea." [Ex Lindiey Gen. et Sp. 498.] 



„Terrestrial. Stem 1 foot high clothed with many linear 

 oblong acuminated reflexed glaucous shining and striated 

 leaves whose bases are sheathing and their extremities tipped 

 with brown, the leaves become smaller upward and gradually 

 change into lanceolate bracteae. Flowers few (3) in a ter- 

 minal spike very large and singular in their appearance. 

 The petals all of a greenish colour, beautifully striated with 

 a deeper hue, their extremities and margins white. Upper 

 segment erect oblong obtuse 2 inches (-- 5 cm) long the 

 margin entire and even, the 2 interior ones are a little 

 shorter obovate sinuated and plaited at the margin, the 

 2 lateral or rather lowermost are 3 inches (- 7,5 cjaa) long 

 spathulate of a bluer green in the inside, the broad extremity 

 remarkably plaited at the margin while its surface is studded 

 with many roundish or linear white papillae tipped with 

 green. The labellum is scarcely so long as these, reflexed 

 broadly oblong, the sides curved upwards waved and plaited 

 especially at the extremity where the surface is papillose as 

 in the petals just described, at the base it is suddenly con- 

 tracted into a short whitc claw having an orange spot at 

 the base and the inner surface for more half the length is 

 in the middle furnished* with about 6 vertical green plates 

 or lamellae of which the extremities are free sharp and 

 curved a httle upwards. Germen angular thickened upwards, 

 column linear oblong decurved semicylindraceous marked with 

 2 depressed longltudinal lines, the base dilated deep red and 

 marked with a tooth on each side, upwards in the front is 

 the subquadrate depressed green stigma terminated by a 

 short bifid lip, the back of the colum is green and within 

 the summit of it, which forms an imperfect upperlip, is 

 situated the ovato-acuminate green auther case. Cells 2 



