from the very base of the stalk of the pseudo-bulbs, among the 
short, thick, fleshy roots, bearing a compound panicle of racemes 
of numerous, fragrant flowers, of moderate size, of a yellow colour, 
more or less tinged with green, marked, especially on the sepals 
and petals, with blood-red spots. Sepals and petals much 
spreading, all lanceolate and acuminate, rather than acute, the 
latter the narrowest. Ladellum with its claw surrounded by and 
united with the column, the rest spreading, deeply tripartite, 
bearing two prominent ftudercles at the base of the disc: side 
lobes nearly ovate, spotless, middle semiorbicular, spotted, taper- 
ing into a claw, rather deeply two-lobed, each lobe half-ovate ; 
all the lobes more or less serrated or fimbriated. _4nther-case 
hemispherical, sunk into a toothed clinandrium. 
Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Pollen-masses -—magnified. 
