there sending down long wiry roots, glabrous, red, almost 
incased in leaves. Leaves numerous all along the branches, 
but much crowded, and spreading in a stellate form at their 
apices, subulate, mucronulate, arched backwards, shining, 
somewhat rough, of deep green colour, with a membranous, 
colourless, ragged border on each side near the base. Pe- 
duncles crowded from the apex of the branches, pubescent, 
cymose. Calyx five-partite, unequal, persisting ; segments 
elliptical, concave internally, pubescent on the outside. Co- 
rolla (nine lines across in the greatest diameter) five-cleft, in 
the unexpanded bud yellow on the outside, reddish-orange 
within ; tube glabrous and shining, pale green, twisted ; 
limb spreading, flat, salmon-coloured and glabrous in front, 
eae in the throat, white and glanduloso-pubescent be- 
ind; lip recurved, small, ovate, of nearly uniform reddish- 
colour, turgid and shining, having at its base two erect 
teeth white or greenish and tipped with red : other segments 
of the limb elliptical, the pair most distant from the lip 
being the largest. Column flattened, green and twisted 
immediately above the germen, of an uniform brown tinge 
in front beyond the first flexure and green behind, beyond 
the second flexure (which forms a right angle) green both 
in front and behind, but edged with brown, and having a 
whorl of spreading, crystalline, moniliform, partly-colou red 
hairs at the apex. Anthers green, bursting along the front, 
and then reflexed in two parallel lines across the column of 
fructification ; pollen abundant, granules small, greenish- 
white. Stigma rounded, villous. Germen linear, trigon- 
ous, equal at the apex, distinctly furrowed along two sides, 
more obscurely along the third, pubescent, the hairs as well 
as those on the peduncle, pedicels, and calyx, short, spread- 
ing, glandular. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Front, and 2. side view of a Flower :—magnified. 
