a half high apart from the inflorescence; rhizome very 
stout. Bulbs ovoid-oblong, slightly compressed, about 
three inches long. Leaves strap-shaped, subacute, some- 
what curved, about eight to twelve inches long by three- 
quarters to an inch broad, bright green. Scape from the 
base of the bulb, about two and a half to three feet high, 
panicled above with about six or eight side branches and 
numerous flowers. DPracis ovate-oblong, acute, concave, 
about two lines long. Pedicels about six to nine lines long. 
Flowers bright yellow, with a large brown blotch at the 
base of the petals and dorsal sepal, a few spots on the 
lateral sepals, and a brown band on the lip in front of the 
orange crest. Sepals spathulate-oblong, subobtuse, five to 
six lines long, the lateral pair somewhat recurved. Petals 
with short broad claws, otherwise much like the dorsal 
sepal in shape, and somewhat connivent, slightly incurved 
at the apex. ip with erect claw and oblong, obtuse, 
reflexed limb, rather shorter than the other segments; 
crest with four or six fleshy lobes, and a pair of very stout 
parallel keels extending to the base of the lip. Column 
clavate, about two lines long, without wings.—R. A. Roxrs. 
Figs. 1 and 2, column and lip; 3, anther-case; 4 and 5, pollinarium, seen 
from front and back :—all much enlarged. . 
Nore to Tas. 8019. 
Fieldia was introduced in 1826, though not figured in 
the Botanical Magazine till 1858. Sir Joseph Hooker 
writes that he certainly had Rhabdothamnus Solandri in 
view in 1854 as then in cultivation, and not Fieldia, with 
which, botanically, it could not be confused. 
