Drscr. Stems two to three feet high, tufted, stout, 
cylindric, smooth, tumid at the base, rather distantly jointed, 
nodes not swollen, upper part amongst the leaves dark 
brown. Leaves confined to the top of the stems, five to 
seven inches long by two-thirds to three-quarters of an inch 
broad, distichous, suberect, narrowly linear-oblong, acumi- 
nate, coriaceous, obscurely nerved at the back, deep green, 
back keeled, margins recurved; sheaths short, obscurely 
compressed. Aaceme terminal, few-flowered; peduncle very 
slender, compressed, clothed with appressed acute sheathing 
membranous brown spathes; bracts one-eighth of an inch 
long, acute. Ovaries and pedicels very slender, together — 
. one and a half inches long. Perianth two and a half inches 
in diameter, bright green, except the lip and upper part 
of the column, which are of an orange vermilion colour, 
contrasting singularly with the green. Sepals narrow or 
elliptic-spathulate, subacute, rather concave, less than half an 
inch at the broadest part. Petals as long as the sepals, very 
slender, with small lanceolate acute tips, ascending and in- 
curved. Column connate, with the base of the lip into one 
‘subclavate, laterally compressed rather slender body. Lip 
(the free portion) suborbicular, retuse or emarginate, from the 
lip being recurved, margin erose and obscurely lobed ; disk 
with three to five parallel smooth ridges, and a three-lobed 
callus atthe base. Column (the free portion) very short, stout, 
narrowed upwards. Anthers small, hemispheric.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, column and lip :—magnified. 
