late, acuminate, plicate, bright green. Scape two to four 
ft. high, as thick as a goose-quill, green ; sheaths distant, 
acute. Racemes one to two ft. high, many-fid. ; pedicels 
very short, the lower sometimes two-fld.; bracts three- 
fourths to one inch long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, as long as the ovary, the lowest green speckled 
with red-brown. lowers about an inch in diameter. 
Sepals ovate, acute, and rounded petals pale primrose- 
yellow, blotched with dark red. Lip fleshy, very shortly 
clawed, quadrate in outline, with crisped subcrenate 
margins, 8-lobed; lateral lobes ear-shaped, dark red; 
terminal 3-lobulate, golden-yellow with dark red spots, 
lobules rounded ; disk between the lateral lobes yellow, 
with erect, parallel, crenate, fleshy keels. Column rather 
stout, spotted. Anther 4-lobed; pollinia globose, sessile 
on a harrow, transverse membrane.—.J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column ; 3, anther ; 4, pollinia :—All enlarged. 
