The female flowers, as in so many other species of this 
remarkable genus, are unknown, though they might appear 
at any time on the same plant, as in the case of allied 
species. 
Descr.—A tufted epiphytic herb, about a foot and a half 
high. Bulbs ovoid-oblong, three to five inches long, 
clothed with membranous imbricating sheaths. Leaves 
stalked, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, plicate, six 
to twelve inches long by an inch to an inch and a half 
wide. Scape nearly erect at the base, arching above, 
about a foot long, with about eight flowers, of which the 
males only are known. Sracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
over a third of an inch long. Pedicels slender, nearly an 
inch long. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, about an inch to 
aninch and a quarter long, green blotched with purple, 
the upper erect, the lateral pair spreading. Petals nearly 
erect, lanceolate, acuminate, green blotched with purple, 
about as long as the dorsal sepal and connivent with it. 
Lip three-lobed, very thick and fleshy, an inch to an inch 
and a quarter long; side lobes erect, oblong, rounded at 
the base, deep red-brown at the margin, green spotted 
with brown underneath; front lobe orbicular or nearly 
quadrate, obtuse and very thick, bright yellow; sac oblong, 
produced in front into a conical obtuse apex. Column 
club-shaped, an inch long, with a pair of slender curved — 
cirrhi (‘ antenue”’) descending into the sac.—R. A. 
Roure, 
Fig. 1, part of the lip; 2, anther-cap; 3, pollinarium; 4, sketch of whole 
plant:—1, 2 and 3 enlarged ; 4 much reduced. 
