Pseudobulbs approximate, ovoideo-pyriform, sulcate, with two or 
three long leaves. Leaves petiolate, oblong, acuminate, plaited, 
nerved, with three very and two less prominent chief ribs on the 
under side. Injlorescence axillary from a sheath beneath the 
pseudobulb, very long, racemose or paniculate, with a few ses- 
sile ligulate apiculate distant hairy sheaths, the dark purplish 
rhachis covered with short soft hairs. Bracts oblong acute, her- 
baceous, hairy, not equalling the stalks of the ovaries, purplish. 
Flower-stalks and ovaries hairy, the ovaries shorter, nearly pear- 
shaped. <A row of stalked oblong flat lamelle on the flower-stalks, 
which show beautiful areole under a high magnifying power. 
Chin blunt. Sepals short, hairy on the outside; upper sepal 
triangular ; lateral sepals broader and somewhat falcate, yellowish 
green outside, greenish yellow to yellow inside, with black pur- 
plish nerves, and now and then a few transverse reticulations. 
Tepals linear acute, with ascending apex, yellowish, with two or 
three purplish streaks and a white apex. Lip rounded, nearly 
heart-shaped at base, triangular, with a little angle above the 
point, yellow, commonly with purplish streaks, or simply yellow; 
no crests. Column semiterete, greenish, with purplish dots and 
streaks. 
Materials:—Four specimens from Griffith and eight garden’ 
specimens, and sketches prepared at two different times; often 
seen in the Schillerian stoves ; now in the collection of Hamburgh 
Botanic Garden. | 
Tab. 114.—Plant: the pedicels never seen so thick by me. 
1, oblique view of flower: I neither understand the artist’s perspective 
nor the surprising insertion of ovary +; 2, portion of pedicel to show 
the lamelle +; 8, lip, side view +; 4, column, front view +; 
5, pollinaria, seen obliquely +. 
The figure of this plant was made from a specimen flowered 
by the Messrs. Rollissons, of Tooting. The flower-stalks are 
remarkable for being hispid-hairy above, and the flowers yellow, 
lined with crimson.—JV. W. S. 

