flexuose, single-flowered, bracteated at the base, with a solitary 
bract near the middle, and a pair of opposite 4racts beneath the 
single flower. Before expansion the peduncle almost rests on 
the ground, rising up (but never erect) as the flower expands. 
This flower is of a dirty-yellow colour, more or less copiously 
spotted with deep rich brown, the sepals and petals the palest, 
the large lip of the deepest colour; the whole reminds one very 
much of the colouring, and indeed somewhat of the shape, of a 
large Aranea diadema. Sepals and petals spreading horizontally, 
oblong-lanceolate, uniform, except that the petals are rather nar- 
rower. ip broad oval: it can scarcely be said to be three- 
lobed ; it is gibbous at the base beneath, concave in the centre 
above, the upper half suddenly bends downwards, and is emargi- 
nate at the apex, the edge crisped and minutely denticulate: at 
the base above is a large, four-lobed, fleshy gland (spotted like — 
the rest of the lip), and, in our specimen, shaped somewhat like 
a butterfly with the wings expanded. Column elongated, semi- 
terete, carinated in front, the sides and carina unidentate near 
the middle; the back is slightly downy. Anther in face of the 
column. Pollen-masses four, club-shaped, attached to a trian- 
gular gland. 
Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Column and anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
