uarrowly elliptic flattened leafy pseudo-bulb two to five 
inches long, of two or more leafing internodes ; this part is 
green, and attains nearly half an inch in diameter, in this 
early state it is flowerless. Leaves distichous, two to three 
inches long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, bright 
green, rather fleshy, nerves faint. Mowers borne upon 
the old stems, in which the Jeaves are gone, and their sheaths 
brown ; golden-yellow, with a deeper, more orange-coloured 
lip, one to one and a half inches in diameter ; peduncle very 
slender, with one or two minute obtuse bracteoles. Ovary small 
and slender. Dorsal sepal and petals similar, concave, obovate- 
cuneate, rounded and apiculate at the top; lateral sepals 
more spreading or reflexed, obliquely ovate. Jp pyriform, 
slipper-shaped, ventricose, velvety with fimbriate flattened 
processes ; mouth oblong, truncate at the distal end, with a 
fissure extending thence halfway towards the apex ; margins 
of mouth inflexed, lobulate, inner surface below the mouth 
densely clothed with crisped reddish hairs. Colwmn very 
‘Short, villous below the rostellum.—/J. D. 7. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, lip; 8, column; 4, pollen :—all magnified. 
