Drscr. Pseudobulbs three inches long, ovoid, compressed, 
grooved, green. Leaves 8-12 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, plaited, narrowed into a broad petiole, bright 
green. Scape stout, with an erect herbaceous acuminate 
sheath above the middle. #ract shorter than the ovary, 
appressed, obtuse. Flower five inches long from the tip 
of the dorsal to that of either lateral sepal, inclined. 
Sepals spreading, narrow oblong, subacute, rather dull 
cinnamon-brown, hairy at the base within, margins 
recurved. Petals about one-third the length of the sepals, 
arched, concave with rounded spreading tips, golden-yellow. 
Tip about equalling the sepals, narrow, golden-yellow with 
purple specks on the midlobe; lateral lobes narrow, short, 
obtuse, ciliate, recurved; midlobe oblong, obtuse, clothed in 
the upper surface with long soft interlaced hairs; callus in 
the disk ovate, pointing forward, minutely notched at the 
tip. Column slender, margins not winged.—J. D. /7. 
Fig. 1, Column; 2, lip:—both enlarged. 
