very small; ovary short, red; perianth with a hemispheric 

 base, dull yellowish, thickly speckled with crimson. Dorsal 

 sepal very broadly ovate, concave, narrowed into a long 

 stiff incurved tail, thickly five-ribbed on the back. Lateral 

 sepals spreading horizontally, falcately incurved, ovate- 

 lanceolate from a gibbous base, and with a filiform ex- 

 current process within the tip. Petals hatchet-shaped; 

 that is subdimidiate-ovate in form, narrowed at the base, 

 acute. Lip linear-oblong, recurved, yellow upwards. 

 Column three-toothed. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same with the sepals narrowed ; 3, column : 4 and 5- 

 anther : — all enlarged. 



