two inches long, enveloped entirely in a compressed membrat 
ceous sheath, slit open on one nf four- or five- or more flow 
ered. Flowers racemose, pale lemon-yellow, small for the guna 
Sepals and petals uniform, an inch and a half to two inches at 
the most long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, a little waved, all 
spreading. zp about as long as the segments of the perianth, — 
lobed, velvety within, the side-lobes elongated, incurved, 
meeting over the column, and forming a kind of tube; the ter- 
minal lobe broad, almost orbicular, crisped and ciliato-dentate at 
the edge. Column much shorter than the lip, concealed within it, 
semiterete, with a wing or broad tooth at*each margin above. 
Anther-case sunk into the clinandrium. Follen-masses as in the 
genus, each pair with a short cauda. 
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
