loso-serrate ; the colour darkish-green, with scattered pale spots, 
somewhat transversely fasciated at the back. Spz/es simple, but 
thyrsiform ; below are several large, laxly imbricated, very con- 
cave, deep rose-coloured éracts. Bracteoles at the base of each 
flower small, deciduous. Rachis and calyx very farinoso-tomentose. 
Ovary quite inferior. Sepails very large, linear-oblong, erect, ap- 
pressed. Peta/s one-third larger than the calyx, spathulate, light 
yellow-green, edged with pale blue livid-purple. Scales of the 
petals very long, each two-toothed, and with ciliated appendages 
at the base. Anthers bright-orange. 
Fig. 1. Base of a petal, with scales, and two stamens,—magnijied. 
