

Leaves bifarious, recurved, appearing with the flowers, and 

 then eight to ten inches long, by an inch and a half broad, 

 pale green, linear or narrow-linear, oblong, obtuse, not 

 striated. Scape as thick as the little ringer, twelve to eighteen 

 inches high, contracted at the apex, glaucous-green, speckled 

 with red at the base. SpatJie two-flowered ; leaflets about as 

 long as the pedicels, one to two inches, linear, membranous. 

 Ovary short, green. Perianth five to seven inches in diame- 

 ter ; tubes very short, fimbriate inside ; lobes broadly ovate- 

 oblong, acute, spreading and recurved, nearly equal, pale 

 straw-coloured, profusely covered with vermilion spots, verdi- 

 gris-green at the base, with a dark purple band at their in- 

 sertion. Stamens nearly equal, decimate ; anthers green. 

 Stigma very obscurely three-lobed.' — J. B. H. 



"Fig. 1. Ovary, base of perianth, and stamen. 2. Transverse section of 

 ovary : — magnified. 





