long, turgid, grooved. Leaves a foot long by an inch to an 

 inch and a half broad, narrow lanceolate, acuminate. Pa- 

 nicle climbing, two to three feet long, lax-branched, many- 

 flowered. Bracts three-quarters of an inch long, cymbiform. 

 Floivers three to four inches in diameter, on pedicels which, 

 together with the ovary, are three to three and a half 

 inches long. Sepals clawed, orbicular-oblong, obtuse, cor- 

 date at the base, waved, upper dirty yellow-brown, lateral 

 dull orange-yellow, claws green. Petals similar to the sepals, 

 but with shorter claws, pale golden-yellow, streaked with 

 blood-red at the very base. Lip hastate, very thick and co- 

 riaceous, much smaller than tin 1 sepals, lateral lobes forming 

 short, rather recurved horns, middle ones with a hemisphe- 

 rical base and tongue-shaped acuminate limb. These lobes 

 are dark purple-brown, except the tip and disk of the middle 

 lobe, which is yellow. Crests three, white, each two-lobed, 

 the lobes recurved. Winqs of column rounded, purple- 

 brown.— J. I). II 



