where they become terete; they are furrowed, and have near the top two or three 
somewhat stout leathery leaves. The flower spike or scape is sub-terminal, erect, and 
the flowers large and nodding, the pedicels white, and the sepals and_ petals thick 
and fleshy in texture, ivory-white, or a creamy white ground colour, the petals 
especially being spotted with deep purple, the inside fainter in colour; the lip is 
of an intense deep violet-purple, the front lobe having a narrow marginal border of 
green. 3 
This plant grows naturally in a hot moist atmosphere, and one would imagine 
from the size of its pseudobulbs that it was endowed with the means of with- 
standing a severe dry season; but this does not appear to be the case, for the 
moisture which arises, even in the dry season, enables this plant to bring its leaves 
and bulbs through without much injury. It should be potted or planted in baskets, 
and hung up near to the roof-glass in order to allow all the sun and light possible 
to get at it; but yet a thin shading should be available during the very hottest part 
of the day in the summer. It should be well drained, potted in good peat 
fibre and sphagnum moss, and the plant grown in the stove with Crotons and 
such-like plants, which require great exposure to sun and light, or in the hottest 
part of the East Indian house, the atmosphere in either position being kept well 
charged with moisture. In the winter, although much less water will be necessary,. 
it must not be allowed to suffer from drought. 
