a specimen of it was sent in 1887 to the Herbarium of the 
Royal Gardens by Mr. Moore from the rich orchid collec- 
tion of Glasnevin. The plant figured was presented to Kew 
in 1891 by 8S. Courtauld,. Esq., of Braintree, where it 
has flowered annually in a cool house in the month of 
October. 
Descr.—Stems tufted, very short ; petiole enclosed for 
half its length in three superposed scarious, tubular 
cylindric sheaths, with truncate mouths, of which the lower 
are short, the uppermost an inch long, more inflated, and 
half an inch in diameter. Leaf solitary, three to five 
inches long, by one to one and a quarter inches broad, 
linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, channelled above, and 
bright green, paler beneath, with a prominent keel, nerve- 
less till dried, then 5-nerved, base narrowed into a stout 
channelled petiole two inches long, enclosed for the most 
part in the sheaths of the stem. Scape three inches long, 
stout, erect, 1-fld., enclosed for half its length in the 
upper sheath of the stem, and with minute sheathing 
bracts at its base. Bract cymbiform, beaked, one and a 
half inches long, erect, green, base rounded. Corolla- 
tube urceolate, base gibbous in front, 6-ribbed, orange- 
yellow, speckled with red without and within; limb yellow, 
of three triangular-ovate lobes tapering into slender tails 
one and a half to two inches long, upper erect, two lower 
pendulous flexuous. Petals erect, lanceolate, margins un- 
dulate, shortly broadly unguiculate, toothed towards the 
tip, base excised in front. Lip erect, shortly clawed, 
lanceolate, dilated in the lower half, papillose, tip toothed. 
Column rather slender ; anther truncate and 2-toothed in 
front.—J. D. H. ii 
Fig. 1, Ovary, petals and column ; 2, petal; 3, lip; 4, column ; 5, anther ; 
6, pojlinia :—AZl enlarged. 
