sheathing petiole, long acuminate, subpHcate, prominently nerved, 

 20-45 cm. long ; scape subflexuous, clothed with 7-9 distant 

 membranous long acuminate sheaths ; raceme laxly many-flowered, 

 flowers nodding ; bracts leaf-like ovate-oblong acuminate, shorter 

 or longer than the ovary ; sepals at length reflexed, l*5-2'3 cm. 

 long, the lateral ones obliquely obovate acute, odd one subspathu- 

 late obtuse ; petals spreading, broadly ovate or suborbicular, very 

 shortly clawed, about as long as the sepals ; lip ovate-oblong in 

 outline, spurred below the middle, at the junction of the lobes, the 

 spur obtuse, 0*4 cm. long, Blobed, the lateral lobes erect oblong 

 very obtuse, intermediate convex oblong-obovate tuberculate-cris- 

 tate, a little shorter than the petals ; column oblong, without a 

 projecting foot ; operculum beaked at base ; pollinia oblong, 

 affixed to an oblong stipe. 



Described from one living and several dried specimens. The 

 drawing was made from a plant sent by Miss Pegler from Kentani. 



