many-fl., about 3 cm. in diameter, bracts lanceolate reflexecl, 

 sometimes minutely ciliolate, the lower ones much exceeding the 

 flowers ; sepals and petals spreading oblong obtuse, about 8 mill, 

 long, sepals 3-nerved, petals 5-nerved ; lip oblong-galeate, margin 

 inflexed, free apex very obtuse emarginate crisped and bearded, 

 without any ridge or with a very short one on the back, spurs 

 filiform, about 2 cm. long, much longer than the ovary; rostellum 

 rhomboid, narrowed in the middle by the recesses for the glands, 

 widened and obtusely beaked at the apex ; stigmatiferous lobe 

 obovate-oblong as long as or a little longer than the rostellum ; 

 glands large, placed well behind the apex of the rostellum. 



Described and drawn from living plants sent Nov. 1892 by Mr. 

 Flanagan from near the mouth of the Kei Pi. Colour of the 

 flowers white variably suffused with pink, and usually sweet- 

 scented. A very similar looking but smaller flowered species 

 which had previously been regarded as a variety of this species, 

 has been distinguished and described by Mr. Schlechter as 

 S. neglectiim. 



