cating, thin, membranaceous scales; the lower portion leafless, 
throughout multangular, green, elegantly spotted with brown. 
Leaves alternate, scarcely distichous, approximate, spreading, 
ovato-lanceolate, sessile, obtusely acuminated, thick and fleshy, 
obsoletely striated, more distinctly when dry, glabrous as in every 
part of the plant. Peduacles short, erect, solitary, axillary from 
almost every leaf, bearing generally two, erect or slightly droop- 
ing flowers, about half an inch long, clavato-cylindraceous, with 
six furrows, green above, the rest white, spotted with lilac; the 
mouth contracted; the Zimés of SIX, moderately spreading, short, 
ovato-rotundate Joses, the three inner ones smaller. Stamens 
quite included. Filaments erect, glabrous. Ovary broad-ovate, 
spotted. Style short, thick. Stigma three-lobed, papillose. 
Fig. 1. Flower-stalk and one flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified, 
