cuneate, entire, naked or with a few marginal cilia and 
tapering to a petiole 3-1 in. long; main-nerves 8-10 pairs; 
interpetiolar glands few, setaceous, stout. lowers in the 
upper axils, large, simply pedicelled, solitary, 24-3 in. 
across, bright red; pedicels 24-4 in. long, stout; bracts 0. 
Sepals 2, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 5—7-nerved, 
green. Veaillum rounded-obevate, tip retuse 2-lobed or 
obcordate, with an apiculate rib, keeled on the back. Wings 
sessile 3-2 in. long; basal lobe wide oblong, retuse or 
obcordate; distal twice the size, wide oblong, 2-lobed. 
Labellum with limb ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cymbiform, 
sharply acuminate, $—3 in. long ; spur 2-23 in. long, slender, 
slightly curved. laments very short, thickened upwards 
and confluent in the connectives of the orbicular, introrse 
anthers. Ovary straight, obtuse. 
Fig. 1, portion of branch with base of leaf and interpetiolar glands; 2, bul; 
8, lip; 4, staminal column ; 5, ovary :—all enlarged. 
