linear-oblong, about two to four inches long, and an inch 
in breadth, rather deeply unequally two-lobed at the tip, 
with an acute sinus, lobes rounded, margins recurved. 
Peduncle axillary, a foot long, slender, bearing a few short 
acute sheaths, and a many-fid. inclined raceme or panicle 
up to one ft. long; rachis of panicle, branches, pedicels and 
ovaries bright red; bracts small, rounded. Dorsal sepal 
linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, dull yellow, three-fourths of an 
inch long; lateral one and a half inches long, clawed, oval, 
obtuse, cinnabar-red above, beneath ochraceous. Petals 
rather shorter than the dorsal sepal, narrowly spathulate ; 
yellow with blood-red spots. Lip minute, three-lobed ; 
midlobe nearly orbicular, yellow, with scarlet blotches, 
two auricled at the base, and with three basal tubercles ; 
side-lobes triangular, erect; disk complicately crested ; 
spur a short, obtuse sac. Column scarlet, anther hemi- 
spheric.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, anther; 3 and 4, pollinia: all enlarged; 5, view 
of plant, reduced. 
