Descr. Stem none. Leaves springing directly from the root. 
Petioles short, but veiy thick and triquetrous, expanding into an 
elliptical ovate blade, the outer ones the longest, all hairy, 
crenate, obtuse, wrinkled, pale, and with very prominent veins 
beneath. Scape a span and more high, at first curved down¬ 
wards, then erect, stout, terete, clothed with copious, patent, red 
hairs and terminating in a subtrichotomous, compound corymhy 
having at the base two large deciduous membranaceous bracteas. 
Peduncle pedicels with coarse spreading hairs. Calyx small, 
with five ovate segments. Corolla large, lilac-purple, yet varied 
^\dth red and white; the tube inflated, but with a sudden com¬ 
pression towards the base beneath, forming a carina; faux open; 
limb two-hpped, upper lip of two, lower of three rounded lobes; 
wdthin the corolla, on the lower side, are two hnear, orange- 
coloured callosities; above at the faux, a broad two-lobed one of 
the same colour. Stamens two, fertile, wdth the anthers two- 
lobed, firmly united to each other; two sterile filaments, and one 
rudimentary filament. Ovary linear, glanduloso-pilose. Style 
short. Stigma one-lipped, bifid. 
Fig. 1. Corolla, laid open. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovai’y :— ma(j- 
nijied. 
