hairs. Stem one to three feet high, robust, terete, as thick 
as the finger, clothed above with foliage. Leaves very 
large, handsome, spreading, eight to twelve inches long, five 
to nine inches broad, obovate, acute, narrowed into a short 
petiole, deep green above, with darker bands between the’ 
ribs, glaucous below; sheaths short, green, with long cilia 
at the appressed mouth. Spike subsessile, two to three 
inches long, broadly ovoid, obscurely 5-angled, bright green. 
racts about fifteen, one inch long, closely imbricate and 
appressed, broader than long, subacute, keeled towards the 
tip. lowers two and a half inches long, one and a half 
inches across the lip, golden-yellow, with close-set, orange- 
red, broken bands following the courses of the nerves on 
the expanded lobes of the lip. Ovary short, broadly obovoid, 
white. Outer perianth a small campanulate red cup, with’ 
three unequal rounded lobes. Juner perianth with a short, 
yellow, hairy tube, and three narrow oblong, obtuse, erect, con- 
cave leaflets surrounding the lip. ip convolute, with three. 
small, recurved, subspathulate lobes in front, and one large, 
3-lobed, recurved, dorsal lobe. Filament erect, broadly linear- 
oblong, concave, dilated in the middle, obscurely 3-lobed at 
the recurved tip, fleshy ; anther very small, oblong. Stigma 
transversely-oblong, ciliate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with three of the perianth segments removed; 2, ovary, 
outer perianth, filament, anther, style, and stigma :—both magnified. 
