old leaves. Leaves four to seven inches long, oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, plaited, coppery above, beneath 
green. Scape acutely six-angled below, more obscurely so 
above. Flowers six to twelve, in a strict, erect lax raceme, 
nearly globose, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 
posticous; bracts small, ligulate, acute, deflexed, hardly 
equalling the pedicel and ovary. Sepals broadly ovate, 
revolute, obtuse, apiculate, the lateral connate for one- third 
of their length, all of a dirty-yellow colour with a coppery 
hue. Petals linear, acute, re volute, much narrower than the 
sepals and of the same colour. Lip forming an orbicular 
hood, ventricose and emarginate above, with overlapping 
margins opposite the column, yellow with red-brown blotches 
internally. Column very short, with small rhomboid lateral 
w r ings. — Reichb. f 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, side view of lip ; 3 and 4, column — all enlarged. 
