narrow and considerably reflexed, and are pale green 
with a brown central stain ; the sagittately cordate lip is 
deep red-brown with a yellow apex. It thrives satis- 
factorily in a house devoted to species of Oncidium and 
other orchids requiring intermediate conditions. 
Description.—Herb with -close-set ovate-oblong compressed and angled 
pseudobulbs, {-1 in. long, 1-foliate at the apex and 2-3-foliate at the base. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute, 2-5 in. long, 4-3 in. wide. Scapes 
slender, 6-8 in. long, many-flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, 2 in. long; 
pedicels $ in. long. Flowers small. Sepals and petals reflexed, lanceolate, 
3 in. long. Lip spreading, clawed, sagittate-ovate, somewhat convex, finely 
apiculate, } in. long, } in. wide; lateral lobes recurved, ,; in. long; claw 3), in. 
long; crest nearly erect, tooth-like, rather blunt. Column arcuate, } in. long, 
with a slender base; wings almost absent. Pollinia pyriform ; stipe oblong ; 
gland scale-like. 
Tas. 8525.—Fig. 1, flower; 2, lip; 8, anther-cap; 4, pollinarium :—all 
enlarged. 
