from the base of the pseudobulb, six inches long, pendulous, 
curved, cylindric ; peduncle very short, and rachis stout, pale 
green ; bracts small, subulate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, 
one-third of an inch in diameter, close-set, imbricating, 
shortly pedicelled, white, faintly marbled with yellow. Dorsal 
sepal nearly orbicular, concave ; lateral sepals combined into 
one ovate blade, which is bifid at the tip, and placed under 
the lip. Petals obovate-oblong, rather shorter than the 
sepals, subacute. Lip trowel-shaped, with a very short claw, 
the posterior angles rounded, tip subacute, disk neither 
keeled nor tubercled. Column rather stout, glabrous. Anther 
oblong. — J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, side and 2 front view of flowers ; 3, column and lip : — all enlarged. 
