four times shorter than the peduncle. Corolla of a reddish 

 brown colour, urceolately rotate, about an inch and a half 

 across : 3 outer segments about 4 times the largest, elong- 

 atedly obovate, unguis cuneate concave and papulously 

 frosted within on the space where the beard usoaUy is in 

 many others, lamina shorter than the unguis, nearly round> 

 reflected on both sides, ending in a short point: 3 inner 

 segments spatulately cuneate, the length of the ungues of 

 the outer ones, 3 or 4 times narrower than these, involutely 

 concave, quite smooth, lamina very shallcrw oblately ovate 

 acuminate. Stamens rather higher than the ungues of the 

 segments, equal to the stigmas : filaments connate or some- 

 times separate, rather longer than the anthers: anthers 

 linear, blackish; pollen orange-coloured. Stigmas linearly 

 oblong, when the filaments are connate upright and closed 

 convergent, but when these are sepai-ate widespread, of a 

 dingy purple colour; inner lip with pointed segmeatS; outer 

 short, of the same colour, flat. 



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