a long sheathing- petiole, sometimes somewhat plicate, rather 

 thick, nerved, up to 95 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide ; scape very stout 

 straight clothed with 4-5 distant appressed foliaceous acute 

 sheaths; raceme laxly 16-20flowered, oblong obtuse, 15-30 cm. long ; 

 bracts oblong-lanceolate acute, much shorter than the pedicellate 

 ovary ; sepals erect-spreading or somewhat reflexed, spathulate- 

 oblong obtuse petaloid, 2-2-8 cm. long; petals declinate elliptic- 

 oblong obtuse, as long as the sepals, clear yellow ; labellum 

 oblong-ovate in outline, convex, margins undulate, tuberculate- 

 crested, a little longer than the petals, globed, the lateral erect, 

 intermediate as long, somewhat quadrate, the margins deflexed, 

 spur conical obtuse, 0'5-0*6 cm. long ; column oblong, half as 

 long as the lip, produced at base into a projecting foot ; pollinia 

 subglobose, affixed to a broad caudicle; operculum sharply bilobed 

 at the apex, the lobes coloured red. 



Described from several dried specimens and one living one 

 collected by Mr. H. G. Flanagan, from which the drawing was 

 made. 



