8-14flowercd, flowers ascending ; bracts large ovate-oblong acute, 

 as long as the pedicellate ovary ; sepals somewhat spreading obo- 

 vate, oblong-ovate or somewhat orbicular, coloured within, 1-1 "7 

 cm. long ; petals declinate very similar in shape to the sepals, 

 shorter or more rarely as long ; lip broadly ovate in outline, a 

 little shorter than the petals, lateral lobes erect obtuse, inter- 

 mediate oblong rotundate at the apex, convex tuberculate-crested, 

 spur obconic ; column short tetragonous, without a projecting 

 foot ; ovary with the pedicel 1'1-1*5 cm. long. 



Described from several dried and two living specimens, sent by 

 Mr. H. G. Flanagan, from which the drawing was made. 



