Descr.—Tubers cylindric, fleshy. Stem including the 
raceme, a foot high and upwards, leafy throughout, 
terete, green. Leaves, lower spreading, four to six inches 
long, by nearly one broad, linear-oblong, acuminate, undu- 
late, base amplexicaul; upper much smaller, suberect, 
lanceolate. Haceme three to five inches long, rather lax- 
fid.; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, green, of the lower 
flowers as long as the ovary, of the upper shorter. Ovary 
an inch long, slender, curved, subrostrate. Sepals green, 
less than half an inch long, dorsal hemispheric; lateral 
oblong, obtuse, tips deflexed. Petals linear-spathulate, 
green, erect, margining the dorsal sepal. Lip twice as 
long as the sepals or more, shortly clawed, from rose-red 
to deep orange-red, side-lobes shorter than the mid-lobe, 
pointing forward, oblong, obtuse, mid-lobe smaller, clawed, 
deeply 2-lobed ; spur nearly twice as long as the lip, stout, 
incurved, dirty yellow. Anther-tubes ascending, tips 
coloured. Rostellwm small, triangular. Stigmatic processes 
stout, sausage-shaped, decurved, of the colour of the lip. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side view of sepals, petals, and column; 2, front view of column 
and base of lip :—Both enlarged. 
