witli small black hairs, which speedily fall off. Leaves narrow, short and leathery, un- 

 equally emarginate at their points. Floivers in pairs, opposite the joints of the leaves 

 and freely produced over the whole of the upper half of the stems, exuding a delicious 



fragrance resembling Wallflower. 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, scarcely an incfi 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, turned slightly backwards, presenting a polished surface 

 resembling ivory, and of the purest white. Lip about the same length as the petals, 

 tliree-lobed, its lower portions erect, stretching forwards, acute, of a greenish tint its 

 central lobe oval, pointed, recurved, yellow, with rich 



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the mcntum very small. Column about the length of the lower lobes of the lip. 



orange furrows along its disk; 



Fig. 1. Front view of lip and column. 2. Pollen- masses : — magnified 



