December 28, 1886. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
563 
The plant has stout, conical, or spindle-shaped pseudo-bulbs, 6 to 9 
inches high, and 2£ inches in diameter at the thickest part, the leaves 
pindtd. The petals are 2 in it es long and 1£ in diameter, broadly ovate 
in form, the sepals being slightly narrower, the dorsal one pait'y hidden 
Fig. 83.—Oatasetum Bungebothi. 
being broad and somewhat like a Phaius. From the base of the pseudo¬ 
bulbs rises a stout raceme of six or seven flowers, much resembling 
individually at the first glance a magnified Angrtecum eburneum. The 
flowers are of a bold distinct appearance and wax-like structure, greenish 
white when first opening, but becoming nearly pure white when fully ex- 
y the nearly vertical petals, and the two lower sepals depressed towards 
le labellum. The latter organ gives much character to the flower, being 
eart-shaped, 3£ inches in diameter, and 2£ from the base of the column 
> the tip, with a yellow depression in the centre leading to a short spur, 
he column is stout, white, and wax-like, furnished with the two peculiar 
