petiole sheathed with two cylindrical brown scales, from within 
which the scape arises ; this is very slender, filiform, shorter than 
the leaf, bearing one or two small, sheathing, remote dracts, and - 
terminated by a long, slender, secund, erect, racemose spike of 
many, rather distant, solitary flowers, which spread horizontally. 
Pedicels a little longer than the sheathing, membranaceous bract, 
curved. Flowers yellow-green in the lower half, the rest deep 
red-orange, paler before full expansion. Three outer sepals (con- 
- stituting the whole external portion of the flower) long lan- 
- ceolate, but combined for more than half the length into the 
: nish, triangular ‘vée, spreading or ventricose at the base, 
contracted at the mouth; the dimd constituted by the three 
- equally spreading, oblong, obtuse, mucronated, orange-coloured 
apices. The rest of the flower is very small, and wholly included 
within the tube. Petals obovate, shorter than the column and 
lip. Zip articulated upon a short prolongation of the base of 
the column, erect and applied to the face of the column, oblong, 
-three-lobed ; intermediate lobe ovate, serrated ; within the lateral 
lobes on each side is a lamella. Column semiterete, three-lobed 
at the apex; /obes nearly equal, acute. Anther sunk im the 
cavity between the three lobes. 
_ Fig. 1. Portion of a rachis and flower. 2. Petals, labellum, and column 
removed from the flower, fig. 1. 8. Column. 4, Labellum :—magnijied. 
