yellow green; internodes about an inch long, clothed for 
half their length with the white papery sheaths of the old 
leaves, which are edged with brown. Leaves on young 
stems four to six inches long, linear-oblong, tip obliquely 
obtusely 2-lobulate. Macemes many, axillary, decurved, 
three to four-fid.; peduncle very short, green, half im- 
mersed in the sheaths; bracts tubular, closely appressed to 
the pedicels, obliquely truncate, white; pedicel with ovary 
one and a half to two inches long, slender, curved, white 
or pale pink. J'lowers three and a half inches across the 
petals. Sepals and petals subsimilar, linear-oblong, obtuse 
or apiculate, and more or less twisted. Lip shortly 
trumpet-shaped, incurved, sulphur or primrose-yellow, 
fading to white round the margins ; tube pubescent exter- 
nally, gibbous dorsally ; limb cordate in outline, with re- 
curved erose margins, disk velvety; mentum short, 
broadly conical, obtuse. Anther hemispheric, pubescent, 
with a fringed anterior margin.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side and front view of column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia :—A/l 
enlarged. : 
