faces, with five pale sunk nerves above, answering to as 

 many strong pale ribs beneath ; petiole one to one and a 

 quarter inch long, pale yellow, speckled with red. Mowers 

 about six, in a pendulous corymb, terminating a flexuou3 

 sheathed, pale green peduncle, about two inches long ; 

 sheaths and bracts a fourth of an inch long, cymbiform, 

 subacute, pale green, speckled with red ; pedicel with the 

 ovary one to one and a quarter inch long. Perianth an inch 

 and a quarter in diameter across the lateral sepals. Sepals 

 spreading, subequal, ovate, subacute, concave, membranous, 

 pale straw-colrd. Petals as long as the sepals, suberect, 

 linear, acute, golden-yellow, and as well as the lip pecti- 

 nately margined with long, flexuous, spreading golden hairs. 

 Lip explanate, side lobes large, ascending, dimidiate-ovate, 

 subfalcate, golden-yellow, blotched with blood-red, midlobe 

 small, linear, lacerate ; disk with an oblong plate between 

 the side lobes, that is cleft into five subulate teeth towards 

 the base of the lip, and two longer awl-shaped ones towards 

 the midlobe. Column dilated above the middle. Anther 

 produced and truncate in front, tip rounded ; pollinia 2, 

 ellipsoid, seated on the dilated apex of the strap, which is 

 attached by a gland to the subulate tip of the produced 

 rostellum.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Petal ; 2, lip; 3, column and pollinium ; 4, anther, 5 and 6, pollinia; 

 —All enlarged. 



