upper surface raised between the nerves and pitted ; under- 
surface deeply pitted. Peduncle six to twelve inches high, 
robust, puberulous, bearing a few lax sheaths. Saceme 
short, erect, many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, recurved, 
green. lowers an inch or more in breadth. Sepals and — 
petals alike, spreading, elliptic-ovate, acute; petals rather 
smaller, and more obtuse. Lip adnate to the top of 
the column, rather shorter than the sepals, flat, deeply 
three-lobed ; lateral lobes spreading, oblong, tips rounded ; 
terminal broadly obcordate, with spreading, rounded 
lobules, and an acute sinus; disk yellow, with two large 
tubercles, and many globose warts at the base ; spur longer 
than the flower, slender, incurved. Ovlumn short, broad. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, base of lip and column; 2, anther; 3, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
