bracts at the base ; pedicels whitish, about one and a quarter inch Ion 



b 



ly three inches long and three and a half inches wide, flattened 



Flowers hand 



pale purple. Sepals narrow-lanceolate, nearly 



quailing in length th 



much 



rounded at th 



petals; lip of the 

 pex, retuse, scare* 



gth as the petals, somewhat 



ider 



pezifoi 



three-lobed, somewhat carinated above, white 

 ? throat, a large dark purple blotch on the 



th 



.J 



with numerous small purple spots on 

 disk, and the apex broadly margined with paler purple, with about seven dark purpL 

 longitudinal streaks. Column white, slightly tinged with purple, subquadrate, with tw( 

 truncated erect or slightly reflected horns, between which is situated the helmet-shaped 

 purplish anther-cell; the four narrow yeWoyv pollen-masses cohere into an oblong mass. 



Fig. 1. Column and anther- case : — magnified 



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