outer sepals, whether by themselves or in combination, are 
even more impracticable than the lip. 
Descr. Roots tufted. Leaves a foot long and under, 
elliptic-obovate, narrowed into a stout petiole which is 
channelled in front and articulate above the base, tip 
rounded, substance very coriaceous, nerves three principal _ 
and many between them, all very obscure. Scape twice as 
long as the leaves, three- to six-flowered; sheaths distant, 
three-fourths of an inch long, tubular, membranous; mouth ~ 
obliquely truncate; bracts like the sheaths, but shorter. 
Flowers one to one'and a quarter inch long without the 
tails; pedicels exserted, half aninchlong. Ovary a quarter 
of an inch long. Perianth yellow, closely mottled with 
bright brown spots; tails pale dirty yellow. Sepals com- 
bined into a somewhat fiddle-shaped convex lamina, with — 
a very short tube; upper sepal short, concave with reflexed 
margins, broadly triangular-ovate, suddenly contracting 
into a slender tail two to two anda half inches long; lateral 
sepals with their free portions broadly ovate, diverging, 
with an acute sinus between them; tails one a half to two 
inches long. Petals as long as the column and closely 
applied to it, linear-oblong from a gibbous base, a little © 
contracted in the middle, obliquely truncate at the top with 
an obtuse tip. Lip as long as the column, linear-oblong, 
contracted below the middle and a little dilated beyond it ; 
base cordate with a very short claw; just beyond the 
middle the lip is thickened with an inflexed auricle on each 
side nearly reaching the centre of the blade, beyond this — 
the blade is four-channelled; the top suddenly contracts 
ito a thickened ovate lanceolate recurved appendage. 
Column slender, tip entire.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of ovaye lip, petals, and column; 2, column; 3, lip; 4, pollen- 
masses :— all enlarge 
