flowering or rooting, or both, towards the middle of almost 
every internode, the peduncles or roots bursting through 
the leaf-sheaths ; internodes one-half to three-quarters of 
an inch long, wholly sheathed. Leaves about four inches 
long, by three-quarters of an inch broad, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, coriaceous, dark green above, deeply furrowed, 
paler and keeled beneath, margins subrecurved. Peduncles 
together with the racemes about as long as the leaves or 
shorter, horizontal and decurved, stout, cylindric ; rachis 
of raceme stout, compressed; bracts confluent with the 
rachis, about half an inch long, ovate, obtuse, distichous, 
green, tipped with brown, closely imbricate, except to- 
wards the base. lowers one and a half inch long, 
pendulous on short white pedicels, falcate. Sepals and 
petals similar, very slender, narrowed from the base to the 
subacute tip, golden-yellow. Lip very small, white 
sprinkled with pale red, sessile on the base of the column, 
saccate, puberulous ; side lobes very short, erect, triangular; 
midlobe short, conical, obtuse, with a small scale at its 
base within ; sac or spur hardly longer than the midlobe ; 
base broadly 2-lobed villous within. Column very short. 
Anther hemispheric.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column and lip; 2, the same, with the lip bisected; 3, column; 
4, anther; 5 and 6, pollinia :—All enlarged. 
