long, 1-1 •/) cm. wide, gradually passing- off into 2-4 herbaceous 

 sheaths ; raceme laxly 1-8 flowered, flowers the largest in the 

 genus and very handsome, erect ; bracts lanceolate acuminate 

 erect, longer than the ovary ; lateral sepals petaloid coloured 

 ovate-oblong acuminate spreading, 4-6 cm. long, 2-8 cm. wide in 

 the middle ; odd sepal suberect galeate ovate or suborbicular 

 acute, produced at base into a dependent straight infundibuliform 

 spur 0*8-1 '8 cm. long ; petals resupinate falcate-oblong obtuse, 

 the posterior margins bent in under the anther, 2-5 cm. long ; lip 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate deflexed, 2-2*5 cm. long ; rostellum 

 erect arcuate-incurved, the gland-bearing arms divaricate abbre- 

 viated, intermediate lobe resupinate ; anther resupinate linear 

 apiculate, the connective narrow, a little longer than the cells ; 

 stigma umbonate, 81obed. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The colour 

 of the flower varies somewhat to orange or yellow tints. 



