Deser.— Boots broad, flattened. Leaves few, variable, 

 the longer four inches long by nearly one broad, oblong^ 

 sessile, tip rounded with a strong mucro, the shorter some- 

 times nearly orbicular, bright' green. Peduncle a foot 

 long, rather slender, green. Raceme terminal, loosely 

 seven-flowered, pendulous, rhachis rather stouter than the 

 peduncle, zigzag. Bracts very small, broadly ovate. 

 1 edwels with ovary, one to one and a half inches lono- 

 recurved. Perianth nearly two inches broad. Sepals and 

 petals equal and similar, spreading and incurved, linear- or 

 obovate-oblong, lips rounded, very convex, margins 

 strongly recurved, red brown above, with broad, rr lden- 

 yellow tips and bases, dorsally pale yellow. Lip very 

 much smaller than the sepals; side-lobes ear-shaped, in- 

 curved, white, streaked with blood-red, disk between' the 

 side-lobes strongly two-ribbed; midlobe orbicular-ovate, 

 obtuse, strongly keeled in the middle, and with a small 

 forked appendage at the base, white, streaked with red. 

 Column very short and broad, much broader than the small, 

 hemispheric anther. — J. D. H. 



r«S , i ,fl Q Wer ^ ith / epa i S e and P etals amoved; 2, lip with one side lobe 

 removed ; 3, anther ; 4 and 5, pollinia -.-all enlarged. 



