Drscr. Leaves distichous, recurved, eight to twelve inches 
long by two-thirds of an inch broad, narrow ligulate for two- 
thirds of their length, then gradually tapering to an acumi- 
nate point, sharply keeled, the lower third complicate, bright 
green. Scape two feet high, stout, dark red-purple, sparingly 
pubescent, bracteate; bracts cauline and floral two to four 
‘al eas Sh i aegis 
inches long, spathaceous, lanceolate from a short sheathing ~ 
base, yellow green with purplish edges, the floral exceeding 
the ovary. Ovary very slender, 3-celled, dark red-purple. 
Flower seven inches across the petals, and four from the tip 
of the dorsal sepal to that of the lip. Sepals pale yellow- 
green, faintly streaked with purple ; dorsal ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse; lateral connate into an ovate obtuse blade placed 
under the lip and shorter than it. Peda/s spreading, very 
narrowly lanceolate, slightly twisted, pale green, with a white 
border and red intramarginal band. Zp two inches long, 
oblong, green and dull purple, hairy within, tip rounded ; 
mouth truncate and notched in front, its sides lobed and 
auricled, the inflected margins yellow, with pale purplish dots. 
Staminode broadly triangular-cordate, with raised purple- 
villous sides.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lateral, and 2, front view of column :—both magnified. 
