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more long 



Petals more 



than the sepals, which they otherwise resemble, both 



in form and colour, the latter being yellowish-white, barred with broad streaks of rich 



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reddish-brown. Lii) short, unguiculate, three-lobed, the lateral portions meeting in 

 front and stretching backwards, in which direction they end in a sort of curved tooth • 



the middle portion, which is pressed closely together at the base, is fleshy throughout 

 and very hairy in front, of an oblong or slightly panduriform shape, carinate along its 

 centre line, and provided with two slender, sharp, upright processes at the point of its 

 junction with the lateral lobes. In colour the Up is white, with orange spots on itf 

 side partitions, and four lines of violet (or in some varieties lilac) streaks along its cen 

 tral lobe. Column white, semiterete, rather fiddle- shaped, with its anther-HA fringed. 



Fig. 1. Side view of column and lip. 2. Front yiew of ditto :--—hoth slightly magnijied. 



