compressed, with obtuse edges, green, young concealed by 
large sheathing scales. Leaves a foot long by two feet and a- 
half broad when fully developed, dark green, narrowly linear, 
oblong, obtuse, somewhat contracted at the folded base. 
Peduncle two feet long, bearing a branched, many-flowered 
raceme half as long; bracts appressed; pedicels green, in- 
cluding the ovary, one inch to one and a half Jong. Sowers 
three inches long from the tips of the upper sepal to the base 
of the lip, two inches across the tip. Sepals and petals 
subequal, linear, acute, recurved or revolute, much waved, 
yellow, transversely blotched with rich chesnut brown. Jip 
all yellow, nearly flat, lateral lobes reduced to small 
half-orbicular auricles; mid-lobe transversely oblong, 
notched at the tip, subcordate at the base ; disk of lip with 
two small, short, abrupt ridges at the very base, and a 
longer central one produced on to the mid-lobe. Column 
very short, with oblong spreading wings.—/.D.H. 
Fig. 1, Column and base of lip, slightly magnified. 
