Drscr. Stems tufted, epiphytic, two to three inches high, 
clothed with distichous, compressed, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 
pale, rigidly scarious scales. Zeaf one to one anda half inches 
long, almost exactly elliptic, obtuse or subacute, deep green 
above, pale beneath, very coriaceous, flat, smooth. Peduncles 
usually in pairs, rather longer or shorter than the leaf, very 
slender, erect, rigid, naked; bracts small, oblong, acuminate, 
compressed, embracing the short ovary. /Vower one and a half 
to two inches long from the tip of the dorsal to that of the 
lateral sepals, horizontal. Dorsal sepal erect, lanceolate, pro- 
duced into a straight tail as long as itself, which is yellow and 
clubbed at the tip, white streaked with purple; lateral sepals 
connate into an oblong emarginate concave blade, that subtends 
the lip, yellow, spotted with purple. Petals like the dorsal se- 
pal but only half the size, spreading. Lip half the size of the 
connate lateral sepals, and of the same colour, but edged 
with red ; oblong but contracted in the middle, and abruptly 
at the base into a narrow claw; base concave, margins erose 
beyond the middle, and furnished on each side towards the 
base with a slender subulate auricle ; tip emarginate ; surface 
echinulate. Column slender, arched, white streaked with 
purple. Pollen-masses 4, sessile. —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, Flowers; 3, lip and column; 4, front view of lip; 5, column; 
6, pollen :—all magnified. 
