sometimes waved, 5-15 cm. long ; spike cylindrical densely 

 many-fl., l'8-2"2 cm. in diameter, bracts shorter than the flowers, 

 flowers about 4 mill, long ; side sepals anticous, connate into an 

 ovate-rotundate emarginate spreading piece ; odd sepal linear- 

 oblong obtuse ; petals obliquely semi-sack-shaped, falcately 

 acute ; limb of the lip small obovate emarginate, sessile on the 

 keel of the appendage, appendage fleshy, rising free from the 

 column on a straight erect keel, then dilated above ovate in out- 

 line and somewhat cowl-shaped, convex above, obtuse and eared 

 at base ; cells of the anther anticous erect ; stigmas 2, situate in 

 front on each side on the apices of a horse-shoe-shaped cushion. 



Described from numerous living and dried specimens. Colour 

 of the flowers clear sulphur-yellow. Resembles C. orohanchoides 

 and C. excisum, but is usually taller and more slender than 

 either, with smaller flowers, and a different lip. The figure 

 quoted from Bauer's rare book of beautiful drawings was clearly 

 drawn from dried specimens, and is, in some respects, misleading. 

 Ker's figure in the Journ. Sci. E. Inst. Lond. vol. vi, t. 1, f. 1, 

 quoted by Lindley for this species, belongs to C. crispam, Swartz. 



