valves under an inch long, subequal, the outer ones oblong 
green and firm in texture, the inner membranous. LPedicels 
just as long asthe spathe, articulated at the tip. Ovary 
clavate, half an inch long; perianth-tube obsolete ubove the 
ovary; outer segments of the limb oblanceolate-spathulate, an 
inch and a half Jong, the reflexing roundish violet-purple limb 
not more than half as long as the permanently suberect claw, 
which has a beardless pale green keel, from which lines of 
bright purple on a paler ground radiate transversely; inner 
segments of the perianth similar in shape to the outer, but 
rather shorter, plain purple, deeply emarginate at the tip. 
Petaloid branches of the séyle vblanceolate—oblong, nearly 
white ; crests lanceolate, very acute. Authers linear-oblong, 
equalling in length the free filaments—/. G. B. 
Fig. 1, outer segment of the perianth; Fig. 2, petaloid branch of the style 
with its crests :—both enlarged. 
