smooth. Leaves two, four to seven inches long, one to 
one and a quarter inch broad, linear or narrowly oblanceo- 
late, obtuse, coriaceous, bright green, margined with red. 
Peduncle ascending, bearing brown, distant, appressed, 
spathaceous bracts, half an inch long. Spike three to five 
inches long, by a third to half an inch broad, falcate, 
- compressed, many-flowered, white ; internodes one-sixth of 
an inch long. Bracts a quarter of an inch long, spreading, 
and reflexed, broadly ovate, acute, membranous, brown. 
Flowers one-third of an inch long, shortly pedicelled, 
decurved, velvety, yellow. Dorsal sepal erect, linear- 
lanceolate, lateral shorter, broadly ovate, sub-acute. 
Petals as long as the dorsal sepal, erect, linear, falcate. 
Lip small, tongue-shaped, recurved, fimbriate towards the 
base.—J, D. H. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, lip and column; 3, front view of column; 4 and 5, pol- 
linia :—adl enlarged. 
