above, which latter are at first clothed with sheathing 
scales, and afterwards seem to enlarge, till on the fallmg 
away of the leaves they are two inches long and naked, 
always rounded and striated. Leaf‘ solitary, terminal, co- 
riaceous, four to five inches long, scarcely an inch broad, 
linear-oblong, nerveless. - Flowers solitary, arising from a 
membranaceous sheath at the base of the leaf, drooping, of 
a beautiful blush-purple colour. Sepals spreading, oblong, 
the upper one reflexed. Petals larger and broader, waved 
at the margins. Lip large, three-lobed, the two lateral 
lobes involute, enclosing the column with the tube thus 
formed, the middle lobe short, reflexed, waved and crisped, 
almost laciniated. 
Fig. 1. Column, 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses: magnified. 
