much less ornamental than the Oncrpiums, which flower 
with us at the same time, but whose individual blossoms 
are in beauty for many days. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs (two inches long) ovate, crowded, 
having about eight broad shallow grooves, and as many pro- 
minent subacute ridges, loosely covered with a gray, shin- 
ing, wrinkled cuticle, and marked with two transverse lines 
(jomts), the outer stipitate. Leaf solitary, oblong, coria- 
ceous, obscurely nerved, emarginate, and somewhat une- 
qual at the apex, attenuated at the base, twice as long as 
the bulb. Raceme (six inches long) protruded laterally 
from the upper joint, cernuous, many-flowered, lax. Flow- 
ers springing from the axil of a small, acute bractea, orange- 
coloured, darkest towards the base of the lip ; sepals ovate, 
united at their base, where the two lowest form a little 
pouch behind the base of the lip; petals ovate, broader 
and longer than the sepals, on short claws ; lip broader than 
long, entire in the middle, ciliated towards the base, slightly 
undulate, concave at their base, and excavated over 
the point of its insertion into the base of the column, mi- 
nutely pubescent in front. Colwmn short, streaked with 
red in front, having a truncated scale near its base, scarce- 
ly hollowed at the stigma, toothed at each side of the 
anther, and in the centre behind affording attachment to 
the bilocular, greenish anther-case ; pollen-masses sessile, 
each grooved along the centre. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Column and Sepals. 2. Lip:—magnified. 
