green, clothed at the base with acute brown sheaths. 
Flower nearly two inches broad across the lateral sepals, 
suberect. Sepals dirty yellow without, within of a rich 
red purple, with golden margins, the lateral ovate- 
lanceolate, spreading and recurved, and with a yellow area 
towards the baseand lower margins streaked with red-brown ; 
dorsal sepal oblong, acute, fornicate. Petals rather smaller 
than the sepals, coloured like the dorsal, oblong, acute, 
incurved, tips connivent. Lip rather shorter than the 
sepals, oblong, puberulous, tip rounded, side lobes none ; 
disk with a low, broad, ill-defined, tumid callus, golden- 
yellow, with red-brown spots in the distal half, and purple 
streaks towards the base. Column yellow, spotted red- 
brown. Anther .conico-hemispheric, papillose. Pollinia 
pyriform, coherent ; gland bow-shaped.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of ovary, lip and column; 2, column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, 
pollinia :—<Adl enlarged. 
