flowered. Flowers on slender pedicels, one and a half to two 
and a half inches long, pale flesh- coloured ; the sepals faintly 
speckled with red purple ; the petals, column, front 
and sides of the lip nearly white and closely speckled with 
violet purple ; the lower part of the lip golden yellow. 
Dorsal sepal with a slender claw adnate to the column, and 
an ovate -lanceolate acuminate blade ; lateral sepals very much 
broader, broadly oblong-ovate, acute, spreading, finally undu- 
late. Petals narrow linear, strongly falcate, adnate below 
to the sides of the column, terminating in slender filiform 
awns. Lip very large, laterally compressed, almost boat- 
shaped, obliquely truncate in front, the everted lips white 
and spotted with purple, and furnished each with a recurved 
slender awn ; tip abruptly contracted into a stouter awn ; 
sides smooth, shining. Column very slender, curved.— 
j. n. h ; 
Fig. 1, Lip and column : — enlarged. 
