Descr. Pseudobulbs six inches to a foot long, sub-terete, 

 tapering upwards, clothed with broad brown appressed dis- 

 tichous sheaths. Leaves elliptic-ovate, plaited, bright-green. 

 Scape a foot long, very stout, terete, green ; sheaths short, 

 triangular, appressed. Maceme a foot long, inclined, eight to 

 ten-flowered, stout, flexuous ; bracts lanceolate, much shorter 

 than the pedicels. Flowers spreading, five to six inches 

 across the tips of the opposite sepals. Sepals and petals 

 spreading or reflexed, narrow-lanceolate, with recurved mar- 

 gins, gradually narrowed into acuminate tips; lower half 

 pink, with darker parallel veins, thence bright yellow to the 

 tips. Lip rather shorter than the sepals, shortly pedicelled, 

 ovate-cordate or sub-rhomboid, with a long acuminate point, 

 incurved, very convex, the margins revolute and meeting at 

 the back, of a uniform bright yellow colour, sprinkled with 

 pink dots towards the base and tip. Column green, arching, 

 twisted to one side, so that the back of the anther is applied 

 to the face of the lip. — /. 1). H. 



Fig, 1, Column and lip : — magnified. 



