mity. From the base of the bulb the scape or flower-stalk 
arises, two feet long, curved, bearing a long raceme of very 
singularly-shaped flowers, of a rich yellow colour. spotted 
with dark red in every part, resembling some strange 
insect. Sepals lanceolate, the margins revolute, the upper 
one very remote from the two lateral ones, erect, rising 
from the upper part of the long greenish column, the latter 
bent completely back, so as to meet behind the flower. 
Petals small, linear oblong:, from the middle of the column, 
and standing forward. Lzp also standing forward, laterally 
compressed, curiously wrinkled or folded, tapering into a 
setaceous point, and having two setaceous appendages or 
lobes arising from the upper side. Anther terminal, broader 
than the column. Pollen-masses linear, with a long, white 
stalk between them and the gland. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. 2. Outer and inner view of an Anther-case. 3. 
Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
