drical, terminating a lateral scape about half the length of 
the leaves, and furnished with several brown sheathing 
scales. Bracts. linear, membranous, brown, very fugitive. 
Flowers orange yellow, three quarters of an inch long, 
crowded ; pedicel one to three quarters of an inch. Perianth 
scarcely patent. Sepals oblanceolate, acute. Petals similar. 
Lip 3-lobed, about equalling the perianth; lateral lobes 
rounded, intermediate lobe subpanduriform, acute. Rostellum 
a slender style-like process half as long as the lip, and 
partially closing the mouth of the hooked spur.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the sepals and petals removed; 3, lip, 
column, and base of ovary; 4, pollinia :—all magnified. 
