Descr. Pseudo-bulbs two to three inches long, ovoid or 

 elliptic-oblong, green, marked with few concentric scars 

 Leaves in copious tufts from the base of the pseudo-bulb 

 sessile, very shortly sheathing, eight to twelve inches long' 

 two to three inches broad, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate,' 

 plaited, strongly ribbed, bright green, paler beneath. Scape 

 two to three feet high, stout, terete, inclined. Raceme twelve 

 to eighteen inches long, twenty- to thirty-flowered. Flowers 

 scattered, an inch and a quarter diameter; bracts lanceolate, 

 acuminate, green, equalling the ovary. Sepals broadly linear- 

 oblong, bent sharply back, acuminate or cuspidate, rather 

 twisted or waved, green, with dull purple blotches. Petals 

 spreading, three to four times as large as the sepals, two- 

 thirds of an inch broad, broadly ovate, obtuse, shortly clawed, 

 pale golden-yellow, convex, the two halves being rather 

 renexed from the middle line. Lip pendulous, sessile, about 

 as long as the petals, but narrower, three-lobed, saccate 

 between the lateral lobes, which are small, rounded, ascending 

 on each side of the column, brownish inside ; midlobe nearly 

 orbicular notched at the tip; sides bent back from the 

 middle which is obtusely crested towards the base. Spur 

 short, broad, obtuse. Column short, stout.—/. B. H. 



Fig. 1 Side view of column and lip ; 2, front view of do - 3 and 4 side 

 and front views of pollen :— all magnified, ' ' 



