Flower* in shortly pedicelled few-flowered racemes from 

 between the leaves; pedicels half an inch long, clothed 

 with ovate-acute sheaths; bracts lanceolate, shorter 

 than the pedicels, which are about half an inch long ; 

 flowers suberect ; lip anticons. Perianth an inch in 

 diameter, spreading, scarlet. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse. 

 Petals rather smaller. Lip about as long as the sepals, 

 linear-oblong, sharply deflexed from the claw, which is 

 adnate to the face of the column, sides straight, apex 

 obtusely triangular, disk smooth, base fleshy. Column 

 short, side lobes reaching a little above the level of the 

 anther, oblong, obtuse, obtusely two-toothed on the an- 

 terior margin. Anther four-celled, depressed ; pollinia four, 

 subglobose, with slender stalks that are attached to a 

 viscous mass. — J. I). H. 



Fig. 1, Ovary, lip and column; 2, front view of column ; 3, anther ; t, polli- 

 nia : — all enlarged. 



