of few joints, and sheathed with brown scales at the joints. 
Flowers in a one-sided umbel, radiating, pedicellate; pedicels 
slender, spreading, with a subulate bractea at the base of each. 
Sepals connivent, very unequal; superior ones ovate, cuspidate, 
concave, straight, tawny, spotted on both sides; Jateral sepals 
very long, lanceolate, with a twist at the base, tawny without, 
yellow dotted with red-brown within. Petals ovato-lanceolate, 
cuspidate, ciliated, yellow with red dots. zp oblong, reflexed, 
entire, obtuse, fleshy, jointed on the produced base of the column. 
Column short, with two cuspidate serrated points, one on each 
side the hemispherical anther. Pol/en-mass in two unequal pairs. 
Fig. 1. Flower with much of the lateral sepals removed. 2. Pollen-masses :— 
