striated, acute, waved, spotted with purple beneath, taper- 
ing below into a short footstalk. Scape from the base of 
the bulb, a span high, bearing a raceme of deep yellow 
flowers, spotted with orange. Sepals and petals nearly 
equal, oblong, spreading, waved. Lip clawed, articulated 
upon the produced base of the column; limb three-lobed, 
with a callous excrescence at the base, two side lobes 
oblong, deflexed ; intermediate one much larger, bifid. 
Column semicylindrical. Anther helmet-shaped, bidentate 
at the back. Pollen-masses two, two-lobed, stalked: the 
stalks adhering to one common gland. 
Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower. 2. Column. 3. Anther-case. 4, 9. 
Pollen-masses. 6. Lip:—magnified. 
