Deser.—Pseudobulbs one to nearly two inches long, 
ovoid, compressed, pale green, quite smooth, with two or 
three lanceolate, brown, basal loose scales. Leaves soli- 
tary on the old pseudobulb, and two to three together in 
the new flowerless shoots; those from the pseudobulbs 
six to eight inches long, narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
obtuse, dark green and channelled down the middle above, 
paler with a distinct midrib beneath. Scape tall, slender, 
pale brown, enclosed below by the long narrow sheath of 
a linear leaf. Panicle a foot long or more, narrow; 
rachis slender, pale brown; branches one to two inches 
long, distant, spreading and recurved, three- to five- 
flowered; bracts ovate, acuminate, pale, membranous ; 
pedicels with ovary one half to two-thirds of an inch 
long, scarlet. Flowers about an inch broad when spread 
open. Sepals and petals orange-scarlet, with paler margins, 
oblanceolate, acuminate ; dorsal sepal arched, two-thirds 
of an inch long, lateral longer, deflexed and recurved; 
petals about equalling the dorsal sepal. Lip shorter than 
the sepals, golden yellow, broadly trulliform, undulate, 
basal lobes short, rounded; apex truncate or retuse, cus- 
pidate; disk rugulose towards the base, where are two 
large globose, prominent calli. Column short, stout, with 
two broad, prominent wings.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2, pollinia :— Both enlarged. 
