shortly stalked, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, rather 

 acute, coriaceous, recurved, 3^-9 in. long, -jj--l£ in. wide. 

 Scapes suberect, many-flowered, 10-13 in. long, base 

 clothed with imbricate sheaths, brown-tomentose especi- 

 ally upwards ; bracts medium-sized, §-§ in. long, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, rather blunt, their margins somewhat 

 reflexed, sparingly pubescent, bright orange-red ; pedicels 

 1J-1J in. long, brown-tomentose. Flowers medium- 

 sized, brown-tomentose externally. Sepals somewhat 

 connivent ; the upper oblong, rather blunt, J~f in. long ; 

 lateral subequal, dilated at the base and there forming a 

 short mentum. Petals linear-oblong, somewhat acute, 

 under J in. long. Lip recurved, 3-lobed; mid-lobe 

 obovate, rather blunt, recurved, undulate ; lateral lobes 

 narrow, blunt ; disk bluntly 3-keeled, the keels crenulate. 

 Column oblong, i in. long. Pollinia 8, nearly globose. 



Fig. 1, a flower, the sepals and lip removed; 2, lip; 3, anther-cap; 

 4, pollinia : — all enlarged. 



