two to three inches long, flexuous, dull green, one-flowered 

 or with the rudiment of a second flower; bracts one-third 

 to one-half of an inch long, ovate, acute, concave, mem- 

 branous, dull red. Flowers pendulous, or with the pedicel 

 upcurved and then ascending ; pedicel with ovary one to 

 one and a half inches long. Perianth nearly three inches 

 across the petals. Lateral sepals broadly linear, and 

 broader dorsal obtuse, golden yellow speckled with red. 

 Petals like the lateral sepals, and of the same colour. 

 Lip much larger than the sepals, cuneately obovate, emar- 

 ginate, sides recurved, white streaked with rose towards 

 the base ; disk near the base with three elongate laterally 

 compressed triangular acute golden calli, behind which 

 are two erect subulate teeth. Column stout, white, tip 

 with a projecting fimbriate auricle on each side. Anther 

 pubescent ; pollinia pyriform sessile on the tip of a linear 

 truncate strap which is seated on a depressed orbicular 

 gland.—/. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Column and base of lip ; 2, front view of column ; 3, anther ; 4 and 

 o, pollinia :— All enlarged. 



