grooved, swollen for the space of four inches, at some inches 

 above the base, to double or treble their diameter elsewhere. 

 Leaves distichous, four to five inches long, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, many-nerved, rather stiff. Raceme lateral, toward 

 the summit of the stem, few-flowered ; bracts one half to three 

 fourths inches long, triangular- ovate or oblong ; pedicel with 

 ovary two inches long. Flowers three inches in diameter, 

 golden yellow, the side-lobes of the lip almost orange. Sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, subacute, straight. Petals narrower, linear- 

 oblong, rather obtuse. Lip triangular- cordate in outline; 

 the short lateral lobes turned up and fimbriated with short 

 ciliolate flexuose processes; middle lobe ovate, obtuse, its 

 very broad base gradually dilating into the lateral lobes, its 

 margins ornamented with dichotomously branched flexuose 

 pendent ciliolate processes, almost as long as the lip itself; 

 disk of lip papillose with short subulate processes. Column 

 very short ; anther-cap 3-lobed. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Lip ; 2, front; and 3, lateral view of the column : — all enlarged. 



