to eight inches long, thin, membranaceous, with numerous 
elevated striae, and tipped with a short acumen. 
Scape from the base of the bulb, erect, two feet high, if we 
include the long raceme of many (twenty to thirty) flowers. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate, white tinged with red, soon closely 
reflexed ; petals longer and broader, standing both of them 
erect over the column and parallel, their margins only 
reflexed, white. Lp deflexed, the smallest of the Genus; 
as viewed in front exactly triangular, with a very acute 
point, the margin near the column fringed with remarkably 
long, coarse hairs or bristles, the disk concave, so that seen 
on the underside it is hemispherical (not by any means ven- 
tricose) : within downy, the bands, the acute apex of the 
lip, and the fringe all red, the rest white. Column short 
and thick, much shorter than the lip. Anther-case hemi- 
spherical. Pollen-masses as in CatasEerum. Stigmatic sur- 
Jace of the column becoming black soon after the anther- 
case has fallen off. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pollen-masses >—magnified. 
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