leaves, one-flowered, provided with two or three triangular, 
acute, inflated bracts. Flowers two-thirds of an inch long, 
of a bright yellow colour, barred and spotted on the lower 
portion of the lip with red. ~Sepals oblong, apiculate, bent — 
backwards. Petals ovate, obtuse, stretching a little forwards. 
Lip longer and larger than the petals, three-lobed, its pos- 
terior lobes large, upright, and curved a little at top; the 
middle lobe dilatate, itself divided into four unequal portions, 
of which the two lateral are shorter and smaller, while the 
middle are wider and larger, all being blunt or rounded; 
along its disc run several lamelle, which are beautifully cre- 
nulated, and at its extreme base there is an hexagonal callo- 
sity about the size of a pin’s head. Wings of column short 
and rounded.—J. B. 
Fig. 1. Front view of flower. 2. Side view of ditto. 3. Column. 
4. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
