Drscr. Stems ten to twelve inches high, simple, erect, 
slender. Skheaths rough, the lower cylindric, the upper 
slightly inflated. Leaves suberect, five to seven inches long, 
lanceolate, acuminate, about 10-nerved besides the midrib, 
margins recurved, much contracted at the base, deep green 
above, paler beneath. Spike suberect or inclined, dense, two 
to three inches long, ovoid, shortly peduncled, many-flowered. 
Bracts yellow, tinged with green; lower one inch long, 
exceeding the flower, subulate-lanceolate from an ovate base ; 
upper shorter, ovate, acuminate. owers crowded, bright 
yellow, sessile, half an inch long. Ovary short, papillose. 
Perianth closed. Sepals papillose, ovate-oblong, subacute, 
obtusely keeled. Petals as long, oblong, obtusely apiculate. 
Jip with the tip exserted, obovate or oblong, and panduriform 
from being contracted in the middle, margins strongly in- 
curved ; terminal lobe small, tranversely oblong, 2-lobed, 
margins and those of the outer end of the basal part of the 
lip erose and ciliate. Calli on the sides of the lip semi- 
lunar. Column scarcely dilated above.-—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower; 2, side, and 3, front view of lip; 4, column :—all magnisied. 
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