inches long from the tip of the erect dorsal sepal to those 

 of the deflexed lateral sepals, sessile on the top of the 

 peduncle ; bracts cucullate, truncate, green, sheathing the 

 short ovary and the base of the perianth. Sepals coriaceous 

 connate below in a short, broadly carnpanulate tube, 

 which is bright red purple externally ; segments broadly 

 triangular- ovate, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base, 

 dull red within with dark purple spots, narrowed into long 

 slender yellow cylindric tails, the dorsal erect, the lateral 

 pendulous, strongly seven-ribbed without and within, the 

 ribs smooth without, warted within. Lip linear-obiong, 

 base cordate, tip fleshy, obtuse, recurved, papillose. Petals 

 oblanceolate, truncate. — J. D. //. 



Fig. 1, Petals, lip, and column in situ ; 2, column ; 3, anther ; 4, pollinia : — 

 all enlarged. 



