rather slender petiole of about the same length ; eliiptic- 

 oblong, acute or subacute, pale green, obscurely 3-nerved. 

 Scapes several, about equalling the leaves, rather stout, 1- 

 nowered ; bracts appressed, long acuminate, with sometimes 

 a setaceous point. Flowers large for the size of the plant, one 

 inch in diameter exclusive of the tails. Perianth with the 

 sepals inserted into a very short broad gibbous tube. Dorsal 

 sepal about one inch long, obovate, concave, suddenly con- 

 tracted into an erect rather stout curved tail twice or thrice 

 its own length, pale yellowish-red, obscurely sprinkled with 

 pale red, and with five to seven distinct red nerves. Lateral 

 sepals spreading and decurved, broadly ovate, gradually con- 

 tracted into slender tails twice as long as themselves, rose- 

 coloured, closely sprinkled with red spots. Up very small; 

 pale, broadly oblong with an obtuse recurved tip, and two 

 longitudinal mesial ridges. Petals narrowly linear-oblong, 

 obtusely 2-lobed at the tip. Column very short.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Front, and 2, side view of column and petals ; 3 and 4, front and side view 

 of lip°; 5 and 0, front and back view of the blade of the lip :— aU enlarged. 



