deeply indebted for the introduction of Eastern Hima- 
layan plants. They flower annually about midsummer, and 
are grown in a pan of Sphagnum and peat, treated with 
abundance of water in the warmer months and with 
drought in winter. | 
Duscr. Pseudobulbs the size of a small hazel-nut, ovoid, 
coated with fibrous remains of sheaths. Leaves two to 
three from each pseudobulb, eight to eighteen inches long, 
enclosed at the base in a tubular pubescent purplish 
sheath about an inch long, very narrow and _grass- 
like, plaited. Scapes from separate pseudobulbs, as long 
as the leaves or shorter, very slender, erect, naked, one- to 
two-flowered ; bracts appressed, ovate-lanceolate, sheathing 
the base of the pedicel. Flowers nodding, three-quarters 
to one and a quarter inch in diameter, bright golden yellow, 
with reddish specks on the disk of the lip. Sepals and 
petals subequal, ovate-oblong, subacute. Lip as long as 
the sepals; hypochile saccate, with the large obtuse side- 
lobes erect, incurved, striated with red within; epichile 
obcordate, with a tooth-like process or appendage or a 
rounded auricle at each side of the base; disk of lip with 
two short raised smooth ridges at the base of the epichile, 
and a line of hairs on each side between the side-lobes. 
Column narrowly winged above.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side view, and 2, front view of lip; 3, column; 4, anther; 5, pol- 
linia :—all enlarged. 
