fleshy, equitant ; in young plants generally brownish or copper- 
coloured ; older ones light green. Scape equitant, almost 
winged, shorter than the leaves. Spike longer than the scape, 
of innumerable, dense, minute, bracteated flowers, of a pale 
yellowish flesh-colour. Bracteas membranaceous, ovate, fim- 
briated. Sepals and petals ovate, reflexed, the latter erose or 
irregularly serrated. Zip subovate, cucullate and fleshy, and 
deep orange-coloured at the base, somewhat four-lobed, downy 
within, side-lobes indistinct, terminal lobes forming a bifid apex 
with a mucro in the sinus. Column very short, clavate ; stigma 
prominent. Anther-case hemispherical, sunk within a cavity at 
the back of the stigma. Pollen-masses two, oblong. W. J. H. 
Curr. Being a native of the warm parts of India, this Orchid 
requires to be grown in the warm division of the Orchideous 
house. We have found it succeed when attached to a block of 
wood suspended near the glass, the plant being in an inclined 
position. A damp atmosphere is essential to it; still it appears 
to suffer if long exposed to any excess of moisture, especially 
during the winter season. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Flower and bractea. 2. Ovary and column. 3. Pollen-masses :— 
magnified. 
