than those of L. pumila, and more horizontally spread out. Bracts scale-like, short. 

 Sepals oblong-acute, much narrower than the ovate-oblong petals, both being of a beau- 

 tiful rosy-lilac. lAp free, three-lobed in front, wrapped entirely round the column 

 very stiff and fleshy, and incapable of being spread out flat unless forcibly bisected down 

 the middle ; along its disc run four or six elevated lines ; externally it is almost of the 

 same colour as the petals, but its throat is yellow, and its upper portion of a rich 



purple. 



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Column thick and stout, spreading out above, and carrying two auricles, that 



rest upon each other. 



Fig. 1. Column. 2, 3. Sections of the lip, showing the column : — magnijied. 



