(leaf-bearing) one to two inches long, green. Leaf four to 
six inches long, oblong-lanceolate, tip recurved obtuse, 
narrowed to the base, thickly coriaceous, keeled dorsally, 
dark green above, paler beneath, nerves very obscure. 
Raceme six to ten-fld., with the peduncle nearly a foot 
long, very slender, decurved and pendulous; sheaths 
closely appressed, streaked with brown. Flowers remote, 
long-pedicelled ; bracts green, tubular with obliquely trun- 
cate rather dilated mouths; pedicels three-fourths to an 
inch long, filform. Ovary one-fourth to half an inch long, 
green, subterete. Dorsal sepal two and a half inches long, 
ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a filiform tail four or five 
times as long as the convex blade, white with three red- 
purple streaks; lateral sepals connate into a red-purple 
lanceolate blade which is narrowed into a slender tail, 
like that of the dorsal. Petals with a yellowish blade, 
much smaller than the sepals, but narrowed into as long 
spreading recurved tails. Lip yellow; side lobes sickle- 
shaped, decurved, half as long as the strict linear fleshy 
subacute mid-lobe. Cuvolwmn very short, stout, acute. 
Anther ritriform.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2,side and 3 front view of column; 4, anther ; 5, pollinia—All 
enlarged. ; 
