bases of the leaves, pushing forth a few long, tortuous 



by which it clings 



Leaves fleshy 



distichous, veinless, flat, obliquely emarginate at the apex 



dark-green, sublucid, 4-5 



ches long. Panicles lateral. 



loose, many-flowered 



feet and a half long, with hard 



round branches. Bractecd short, ovate, somewhat shrivelled 

 Ovarium continuous with the short peduncle, pale red 

 with 6 furrows. Sepals spreading, distinct at the base 

 not imbricated, fleshy, the 3 upper linear, erect, the 



middle one 



being 



larg 



and spatulate, scarlet, banded 



inch and half 



with yellow cloudy spots ; the 2 lower 

 in length, longer than the upper, hanging down, collateral 

 unguiculate, lanceolate, obtuse, abruptly undulated m^the 

 middle, scarlet, with a few obscure paler band ~ 



Labellum 



dwarf, 

 column 



3 lines long, bagged, articulated with th( 

 iobed, the lateral lobes erect, truncate, yellow 



the middle 



bordered and striped with 

 shaped, reflexed, scarlet, yellow at the base 

 obtuse, yellow and smooth inside, scar'-^ 

 side, with the throat callous all round 



tongue 



and dotted 



Columna 



half round, the length of the labellum, apterous, 



with yellow in front, its anterior margin mcurved over the 



striped 



stigma 



Stigma hollowed out, roundish 



Anther terminal 



percuiar, dark scarlet, obtuse, one-celled, half two-valved 



Pollen masses 2, reniform, two-lobed at back 



back 



with a triangular gland, and a diaphanous scarcely elastical 



caudicule, contracted in the middle 



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