compressed, with acute margins. Leaves a foot long, ensi- - 
form, acuminate, narrowed to the base, channelled in front, 
keeled on the back, deep green. Scape one to two feet long, 
slender; raceme as long, many-flowered ;_ bracts ovate- 
acuminate, much shorter than the pedicel, which, with the 
- ovary, is an inch long. Pertanth three inches in diameter. 
Sepals and petals spreading, subsimilar, elliptic-lanceolate, 
caudate-acuminate, with recurved points, golden yellow, 
with broad transverse bands and spots of rich yellow-brown. 
Inp fiddle-shaped in outline, white, with a broad _heart- 
Shaped blood-red spot on the disk of the middle lobe, and 
two smaller ones on each side of the lateral lobes, margins 
erose all round ; lateral lobes narrow, terminal, much dilated, 
transversely oblong, emarginate, with a short awn in the 
sinus ; disk with two parallel pectinate crests extending 
from the base of the column between the lateral lobes, the 
spines of the crests curving forwards and outwards. Column 
_ white, its wings near the apex pectinate, with a few decurved 
spines.—J. D. H. 
Fig 1, Column and lip :—enlarged, 
