Duscr. Epiphytal. Psewdo-bulbs elongated, narrow, almost 
cylindrical, clustered, throwing out a few aerial whitish voots, and 
clothed with the inferior squamiform leaves : above they lengthen 
into a cylindrical stem, bearing several lanceolate, submembrana- 
ceous, sharply-acuminated, almost erect /eaves, with three prin- 
cipal and some lesser nerves, dark green above, paler and slightly 
glaucous beneath. From the apex of the elongated stem-like 
pseudo-bulb the short peduncle appears, with its very drooping 
raceme of full yellow flowers, ten to fourteen upon the rachis. 
Bracteas among the flowers, small, subulato-membranaceous, 
larger on the peduncle ; sepals and petals very patent, at length 
reflexed, lanceolate, nearly equal in size and shape. Lip wfun- 
dibuliform (not unlike the large spurred sepal of Jmpatzens), very 
deep ‘yellow at the base, paler at the extremity, and there marked 
with dotted blood-coloured lines; the side-lobes involute, and 
lapping one over the other, the middle lobe obtuse: or retuse, 
much waved at the margin, mucronate at the point: the base of 
the lip runs out into a long nearly straight spur or tail, longer 
than the ovary. Column quite concealed within the lip, elongated, ~ 
semiterete. Anther helmet-shaped, with a recurved point. 
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column and anther :—magnified. 
