contained in the superficial bladdery cells of the sepals, and is — 
perhaps unsurpassed for brilliancy in the vegetable kingdom. 
Dzscr. Stems densely tufted, rigid, erect, sheathed at the 
base, each bearing a solitary leaf and flower. Leaf elliptic or 
elliptic-obovate, obtuse or notched, very coriaceous, bright 
deep green, pale beneath, blade three inches long, narrowed 
into a channelled petiole one to one and a half inches long. 
Scape slender, rigid, clothed at intervals with truncate sheaths, 
of which the uppermost is one inch long, lower somewhat 
spathaceous, compressed, and reaching nearly to the ovary. 
Flower one and a half to two inches long from the base of the 
ovary to the tips of the sepals, horizontal and decurved. 
Ovary one-third inch long. Sepals united at the base into a 
curved gibbous tube, half inch long by two-thirds inch in 
diameter, pale orange-red outside, bright cinnabar-red inside ; 
upper suddenly contracted from a triangular ovate base to a 
long slender point, bent down into the fork between the 
lateral sepals, than which it is rather shorter; lateral sepals 
elliptic-oblong, acute, rather obliquely incurved, convex above 
with recurved margins, 3-nerved. Pedals very small, wholly 
included, appressed to the sides of the column, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, base auricled in front, white, with a faint purple 
streak. Lip equalling the petals, included, linear-cblong, 
obtuse, recurved, cordate at the base, white, with a pale 
purple blush. Co/wmn erect, margins not winged.—J. D. #. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the sepals removed; 2, the same with the petals 
_ removed; 38, pollen :—adl magnified. 
