sulcate, dark green, formed of two to four internodes. 

 Leaves two to three, two to four inches long, sessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, spreading and recurved. Racemes from 

 the base of the pseudobulb, with the short peduncle four 

 inches long, drooping; peduncle and rhachis stout, green, 

 and as well as the pedicels and ovary speckled with red. 

 Floivers six to ten, loosely racemed ; pedicels with ovary 

 half an inch long, curved. Bracts about half an inch long, 

 broadly oblong, cymbiform, apiculate, spreading, yellow- 

 green. Flowers half an inch long ; sepals and petals con- 

 mvent, very pale, dull yellowish. Dorsal sepal galeate ; 

 lateral much larger, their gibbous bases together forming 

 a large rounded mentum. Petals oblong, sub-acute. Lip 

 hardly longer than the sepals, 3-lobed, side-lobes dark 

 rose-red, apex rounded, disk between the side-lobes with 

 two fleshy ridges ending abruptly in tubercled calli, 

 mid-lobe transversely oblong, golden-yellow, with a very 

 broad fleshy caruncled disk, tip 3-lobulate. — J. D. H. 



Fig. I, Lip ; 2, column ; 3, anther ; 4 and 5, pollinia -.—All enlarged. 



