loosely many-fl. (up to 30 fl.) ; bracts lanceolate, about half as 

 long as the ovary ; side sepals semi-ovate obtuse deflexed, about 

 5 mill, long ; odd sepal erect, a little shorter, ovate vaulted very 

 obtuse margined ; petals bipartite, the hinder segment falcate- 

 oblong agglutinated to the odd sepal, front segment deflexed 

 falcate-linear, longer than, equally long, or shorter than the 

 hinder segment ; lip deeply 3-lobed, nearly 3-partite, 6 mill, 

 long, segments linear deflexed, the lateral ones acute, the middle 

 wider obtuse somewhat fleshy, spur pendulous cylindrical, about 

 as long as the ovary ; clinandrium very obtuse refuse, cells of 

 the anther rather distant, caudicle-bearing arms of the rostellum 

 ascending and pushed forward, stigmatiferous processes about as 

 long and somewhat deflexed, half as long as the clinandrium. 



Described from one living and several dried specimens. The 

 figure drawn from a plant sent by Mr. Flanagan. Flowers green. 

 Allied to //. arcnaria, Lindley, but well distinguished by its more 

 numerous and different leaves, blunt sepals and bipartite petals ; 

 also resembles H, malacophylla, Reichh.f., but in that species the 

 leaves always turn black in drying. The relative length of the 

 anterior and posterior segments of the petals is in this, as in 

 several other species, very variable. Pteichenbach's H. Gerrardi 

 only differs by the anterior being shorter, Lindley describes it 

 as longer, while the plant from which our drawing was taken 

 exhibits them as nearly equal. 



