which it clings to trees or stones. Leaves fleshy, distichous, 
veinless, flat, obliquely emarginate at the apex, dark-green, 
sub-lucid, 4-5 inches long: Panicles lateral, loose, many- 
flowered, 2 feet and a half long, with hard, round branches. 
Bractee short, ovate, somewhat shrivelled. Ovarium conti- 
nuous with the short peduncle, pale red, with 6 furrows. 
Sepals spreading, distinct at the base, not imbricated, fleshy, 
the 3 upper linear, erect, the middle one being larger and 
spatulate, scarlet, banded with yellow cloudy spots; the 2 
lower an inch and half in length, longer than the upper ; 
hanging down, collateral, unguiculate, lanceolate, obtuse, 
abruptly undulated in the middle, scarlet, with a few obscure 
paler bands. Labellum dwarf, only 3 lines long, bagged, 
articulated with the column, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes erect, 
truncate, yellow, bordered and striped with scarlet, the mid- 
dle one tongue-shaped, reflexed, scarlet, yellow at the base ; 
saccus conical, obtuse, yellow and smooth inside, scarlet and 
dotted outside, with the throat callous all round. Columna 
scarlet, half round, the length of the labellum, apterous, 
striped with yellow in front, its anterior margin incurved over 
the stigma. Stigma hollowed out, roundish. Azther ter- 
minal, opercular, dark scarlet, obtuse, one-celled, half two- 
valved at back. Pollen masses 2, reniform, two-lobed at 
back, with a triangular gland, and a diaphanous scarcely 
elastical caudicule, contracted in the middle. 
J. L. 
