to show that the two genera are not really distinct, and I 
am glad to find that Professor Reichenbach is quite of this 
opinion. 
Descr. Whole plant less than a foot high. Pseudobulbs 
distaff-shaped, more than an inch long, clothed at the base 
with large sheathing bracts that speedily become brown, 
and bearing two or three oblong-lanceolate leaves, which are 
from three to five inches long, leathery, and bluntly acute at 
their extremities. Flower-spikes twice the length of the leaves, 
terete, hairy, perfectly erect and many-flowered. Bracts tri- 
angular, concave, exceedingly acute, not half the length of 
the ovary, and standing out at right angles to the stem. 
Flowers resupinate, closely massed together, of a bright golden- 
yellow. Sepals hollow, ovate, rather blunt, streaked with red 
lines up the centre (inside). Petals rather less than the 
sepals, obovate, very blunt. Jép rather shorter than the 
sepals, deeply three-lobed, the lateral lobes stretched a little 
forwards and rounded, the middle lobe ovate, very acute, and 
. With its apex slightly bent down, at base of lip there is a 
triangular callosity, covered with small dark hairs; there are, 
moreover, a few red streaks on its under surface. Column 
very short, semiterete, and most exceedingly clavate—J. B. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip, spread flat. 3. Pollen-masses:—magnified. 
