two to four inches high, clothed with loosely imbricating 
sheaths which have obtuse oblique mouths and are white spotted 
with red. Zeaf two and a half to three and a half inches 
long, shortly stoutly petioled, ovate, obtuse or subacute, 
rounded or cordate at the base. Scapes longer than the 
leaves, very slender, 1-flowered; bract appressed. Dorsal 
sepal one and a half inches long, lanceolate, tapering into a 
filiform tail with a clubbed red-purple tip; blade serrulate, 
pale yellow, with three lines of red-purple dots. Lateral 
sepals united into a linear-oblong serrulate lamina as long 
as the upper sepal, 2-lobed at the tip, and with a subulate 
appendage on each margin towards the base, slightly longi- 
tudinally folded, yellow with eight to ten close-set rows of 
large red spots. Petals like the dorsal sepal, but very much 
smaller. Jp very small, appressed to the lateral sepals, 
oblong-panduriform, rounded at the tip. Column slender, 
pale, with narrow serrulate wings.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with lateral petals removed :—enlaryed. 
