Descr.—Stem ten to twelve feet high, as thick as a 
swan's quill. Leaves eight to ten inches long, from 
oblong to linear-oblong, alternate, distichous, fleshy, 
keeled, bright green, tip two-lobed. Peduwnele a foot long, 
leaf-opposed, pale reddish brown. Panicle a foot long, 
and nearly as broad, pendulous; branches spreading, the 
lower many-fid. ; bracts small, triangular, green; pedicels 
with the ovary rose-colrd., one and a half inches long. 
Flowers two and a half to three inches long from the tips 
of the dorsal to those of the lateral sepals. Dorsal sepal 
erect, linear, widened towards the obtuse tip, orange-red, 
mottled with crimson; lateral sepals pendulous, sub-— 
rhomboidly or spathulately obovate, undulate, crimson 
with large blood-red blotches. Petals erecto-patent, sub- 
spathulately linear, obtuse, falcate, coloured like the 
dorsal sepal. Lp very small ; side-lobes quadrately oblong, 
erect, blood-red, bases externally golden-yellow, internally 
streaked yellow and red ; midlobe rather shorter than the 
side-lobes, ovate, obtuse, blood-red, with two oblong calli 
at the base ; spur broadly conical, tip rounded.—J. D. Hl. a 
Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2, side view of do.; 3, top of column ; 4 and 5, 
pollinia with strap and gland:—All enlarged; 6, reduced view of top of 
stem and leaves, 
