bright green above, paler and keeled beneath with a few 

 faint nerves parallel to the keel. Peduncle continuous 

 with the stem, and nearly as long, decurved, with the 

 flowering tip ascending, clothed with rather tumid, pale 

 purple and green, appressed, narrowly oblong sheaths one 

 to one and a half inches long ; upper part covered with 

 subulate, suberect flowerless bracts, a quarter to half an 

 inch long. Racemes sub-capitate, two inches in diameter, 

 of very many, densely crowded, golden-yellow flowers 

 three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Sepals narrowly 

 oblong, sub-acute. Petals as long, sub-rhomboidly obovate, 

 acute. Lip adnate to the column throughout the length 

 of the latter; lobes spreading, sub-pectinately lacerate 

 nearly to the middle into subulate lobes ; side-lobes sub- 

 quadrate, terminal broadly fan-shaped, two-cleft, disk with 

 a broad, depressed four-lobed callus, and two small lobu- 

 late wings adnate to the bases of the side-lobes. Column 

 orange-yellow ; clinandrium small, with erose margins, 

 anther very small, turgidly ovate, acuminate. — J. D. II. 



Fig. 1, Sepal; 2,. lip and column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :-aU 

 enlarged ; G, plan*, reduced. 



