a short petiole above the vagina. Panicle two to four inches 
long, drooping, the lower half unbranched and clothed with 
imbricating bracts, each bearing in its axil a globose tuber- 
cled bulbil (which is an imperfect ovary without perianth); 
the remainder of the panicle is more or less branched, and 
bears perfect flowers ; bracts one quarter to half an inch long, 
oblong, obtuse, very concave, green, persistent, imbricating, 
then spreading ; branches slender, sometimes short and two- 
flowered, at others two inches long, very slender, spreading, 
many-flowered. Flowers one and a half inch long, golden 
j^ellow with a bright orange-red base to the lip. Ovary 
globose, tubercled. Calyx campanulate, three-toothed. Corolla 
tube puberulous ; three outer segments ovate, acuminate, 
deflexed ; two inner twice as long, deflexed then spreading, 
falcate, acuminate. Lip narrowly wedge-shaped, with a broad 
refuse truncate end, the angles of which are acute and 
divergent. Anthers with a two-partite wing on each side, 
the segments triangular-subulate. — J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, anther : — both enlarged. 
