green, quite smooth. Leaf solitary, three to six inches 
long by one to one and a half broad, linear-oblong, con- 
tracted into a short stout channelled petiole, tip rounded 
and emarginate, substance very thick, dark green, deeply 
grooved down the middle, each side convex with recurved 
margins. Scape eight to ten inches long, ascending, then 
erect, as stout as a crow-quill, green speckled with purple; 
sheaths about three, distant, an inch long, tip free, erect, 
acute, pale yellow-brown speckled with red. Umbel five 
inches in diameter, about ten-flowered ; bracts half an inch 
Jong, lanceolate, coloured like the sheaths, twice as long as 
the pedicels. Flowers two inches long and upwards, lurid. 
Upper sepal one-third of an inch long, erect, hooded, obtuse 
with a terminal purple obscurely knobbed thread as long 
as itself, dull green spotted with blood red; lateral sepals 
conniving into a long linear straight convex acuminate 
blade, pale dirty green, each gibbous at the back above the 
base. Petals very small, rounded ovate, tip awned, coloured 
like the dorsal sepal. Lip included, tongue-shaped, obtuse, 
recurved, blood-red. Colwmn very short, stout, without 
auricles.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, column and lip; 3, anther; 4, pollen :—all enlarged. 
