long, clothed at first with short imbricating brown sheaths ; 

 a small oblong pseuclobulb usually crowns the larger one, 

 and bears the flowering raceme. Leaves one to three at 

 the tips of the pseudobulb, a span to a span and a half 

 long, about an inch, in breadth, erect and recurved, strap- 

 shaped, bright green, coriaceous, tip rounded and notched, 

 or two-lobed, lobes rounded. Raceme about a foot long, 

 strict, erect, very many-flowered, rachis pale green ; 

 peduncle short, with a narrow brown basal sheath ; bracts 

 an eighth of an inch long, ovate, green; pedicels with 

 ovary an inch to an inch and a half long, rather slender, 

 strict, spreading. Perianth one to one and a quarter 

 inches broad, bright yellow blotched with red-purple. 

 Sepals spreading, lanceolate, acute. Petals broader, 

 oblanceolate or subspathulate, acute. Lip adnate to the 

 column for about one half the length of the latter, trapezi- 

 form with obtuse angles, golden yellow with confluent 

 purple blotches towards the tip ; disk glabrous, thickened 

 towards the base. Column rather short, green, top three- 

 lobed. Anther didymous ; pollinia connate. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Lip ; 2, column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :— all enlarged. 



