Descr. Pseudohulb ovate, tapering upwards into a kind of neck, green, obscurely 

 furrowed, crowned with three ligulate scarcely coriaceous, flaccid leaves^ almost a foot 

 long, and an inch and a half broad. Scape from the centre of these leaves terete, erect. 

 Baceme almost a foot long, many-flowered. Bracts minute. Pedicels scarcely an inch 

 long, terminated by a turbinate triquetrous ovary. Sepals and petals uniform, spread- 



i long, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, pale-yellow, with 



ing, an inch and more 



r 



many dark-purple blotches, variable in size, fewer on the sepals than on the petals, or 

 sometimes none. Lip the same length as the petals, unguiculate, white, greenish at the 

 base : two lateral lobes short and rounded, very obtuse, middle lobe trowel-shaped, very 

 acuminate, the upper side with a large purple-lilac blotch, varying in intensity : the disk 

 of the lip has an elevated ridge, with a longitudinal cleft in the lower half. Column 



semiterete, terminated by three fimbriated lobes, with a brown blotch at the base 



Y\g. 1. Column and lip, seen from ab 



masses : 



ified, 



column. 3 



