Descr.—Stemless. Leaves few, six to ten inches long, 
by one to one and a half broad, strap-shaped, tip 2-toothed, 
bright green, dorsally keeled. Scape a foot high and more, - 
stout, 1-flowered, green, clothed with a dark red purple 
furfuraceous pubescence, which extends to the ovary 
and bases dorsally of the sepals and petals. Bract nearly 
two inches long by three-fourths of an inch broad, cymbi- 
form, shortly beaked, herbaceous, green, quite glabrous. 
Flowers four inches broad across the petals, and nearly as 
much between the tips of the dorsal and combined lateral 
sepals; segments ciliolate. Dorsal sepal one and a half 
inches long, upwards of an inch broad, arched, subundu- 
late, white, with a pale yellow green disk spotted with 
red purple ; lateral sepals confluent in a broadly oblong 
subacute herbaceous pale green blade, with recurved 
margins. Petals two inches long, by three-fourths of an 
inch broad, loriform, obtuse, waved, yellow with three red- 
purple median nerves and a few spots of the same colour 
at the base. Lip oblong, galeate, dirty yellow, smooth 
and shining, inflexed margins of the mouth punctate. 
Column short. Staminode quadrate, 2-lobed posteriorly, 
pubescent, disk with a central smooth umbo; stigma 
broad, circular, peltate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column :—Enlarged. 
