three to four inches long, sessile, with short, amplexicaul 

 and sheathing bases, oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, not plaited, 

 5-nerved, deep green. Spike slender, six to ten-flowered; 

 bracts leaf-like, the lower much larger than the flower, 

 upper smaller, all ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile. 

 Flowers sessile, distant, horizontal. Ovary arched, three- 

 quarters of an inch long, cylindric. Perianth one to one and 

 a quarter inches in diameter from upper sepal to tip of lip. 

 Upper sepal falcate and fornicate, linear, obtuse, together with 

 the very similar petals forming a small hood over the column, 

 all of them green inside, with broad brown edges, and midrib 

 on the outside. Lateral sepals rather larger, spreading 

 and recurved, with incurved tips of the same colour. Lip 

 much larger than the sepals or petals ; limb semicircular, with 

 a broadly cuneate base that is suddenly contracted into a rather 

 broad claw with two ridges, margin irregular, tip cleft. Spur 

 with a very broad subconic base, and short, truncate, or 

 2-lobed tip. Column short, broad, concealed under the dorsal 

 sepals and petals. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower; 2, base of lip, spur, and anther: — both magnified. 



