leaves at the extremity, four to six inches long, and, at their base, 

 partially sheathed with reddish-brown mottled scales. Scape 

 terminal, drooping, eight to ten inches long, bracteatcd. Spike 

 oblong, pendent, in our specimen bearing about ten subdis- 

 tichous rather distantly placed foicers of a golden orange co- 

 lour. Ovaries elongated, clavate, with a scariose lanceolato- 

 subulate bract at the base. Perianth spreading only from above 

 the middle ; the sepals lanceolate, much acuminate ; petals re- 

 sembling them, but smaller. Lip scarcely half the length of the 

 perianth, broadly lanceolate, shortly acuminate, crested with a 

 grooved membrane of the same shape, nearly the length of the 

 lip, its margins irregularly toothed near the middle. Column 

 short, thick, concave near the base in front. Anther-case small, 

 hemispherical. Pollen-masses two, obovate, seated on a cuneate 

 caudicle which arises from a gland. (Some slight differences 

 will appear in our description from the characters of Dr. Lindley, 

 arising probably from the fact of Dr. Lindley having only a dried 

 specimen to consult.) 



Pig. 1. Flower slightly magnified. 2. Side view of column and lip. 3. The 

 same, the lip seen from above. 4. Front view of the column. 5. Pollen- 

 masses : — magnified. 



