erect from the rootstock; blade four to six inches long, 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, rather coriaceous, 
green with whitish stripes between the nerves, of which 
there are six to eight pairs stronger than the others, but 
all are very fine and close; under surface a paler green; 
petiole two to four inches long, grooved above, upper 
portion erect, much shorter than the sheathing lower 
portion which terminates above in two small auricles. 
- Scape or flowering stem springing directly from the root- 
stock at the base of leaves, with the inflorescence about 
two inches long, stout, flexuous, green, tomentosely pubes- 
cent above, furnished with several scarious brown sheathing 
bracts, the lower of which are elliptic-lanceolate and nearly 
an inch long. lowers about an inch long, in a short 
rather dense spike, about two to each bract, quite sessile, 
suberect; lower bracts longer than the flower, upper 
shorter. Calyx tubular, rather dilated above and three- 
lobed at the truncate mouth, bright red, pubescent. 
Corolla-tube shortly exserted, two dorsal and lateral lobes 
subequal, oblong, obtuse, concave, very pale pink; lip as 
long as the lateral lobes, recurved or almost revolute, broadly 
ovate with incurved deeply crenate sides and an erect 
subulate-lanceolate staminode on each side at the base, 
nearly white with broad bright red veins. [Filament as long 
as the dorsal segment of the corolla, broad, concave in 
front; anther of two linear-oblong parallel cells free at 
their tips above and below; connective thickened and 
glandular at the back, produced very shortly beyond the 
anther-cells into a rounded tip. Ovary silkily tomentose, 
green, subglobose, completely three-celled; ovules many, 
biseriate in each cell; style slender, stigma clavellate, trun- 
cate, top ciliate round the edge.—J. D. H. 
Eis. Stary and calyx, with corolla in bud; 2, lip and staminodes ; 3, anther ; 
Yoda and inner staminodes; 5, stigma; 6, transverse section of ovary :—all 
