two from the base and terminating a broad kind of sheathing 
scale, and two arising from the apex of the bulb, larger, 
but similar in shape to the radical ones, linear-lanceolate, 
somewhat coriaceous, and slightly spirally twisted. Scape 
from the base of a bulb and within the withered sheathing 
scale of a radical leaf, slender, tall, varying from three to 
five feet high, panicled above, and bearing copious bright 
coloured flowers, yellow, the sepals and petals alone 
blotched with deep rusty brown. These sepals and petals 
are alike in shape, ovate, acuminate, spreading. Lip \arge, 
broadly obovate, somewhat unguiculate, three-lobed, lobes 
rounded, entire, waved: at the base is an elevated, keeled 
ridge, or crest, presenting three acute lobes. Column 
short, yellow, in front at each side having a projecting, 
rounded wing. Anther-case hemispherical, yellow. Pol- 
len masses two, the caudicle arising from an oblong, deep 
red gland. 
Fig. 1. Germen, Column, and Anther. 2. Pollen-Masses:—mag- 
nified. 
