with a deep median groove, very coriaceous, bright green ; 
petiole enclosed for half its length in a membranous brown 
ribbed sheath’ with a truncate mouth. acemes very 
shortly peduncled, solitary from each leaf-sheath, two or 
three times as long as the leaf, erect, very slender, clothed 
at intervals with bracts from near the base to the summit ; 
bracts one-tenth of an inch long, between cup- and funnel- 
‘shaped, with a very oblique mouth, lowest smaller and 
narrower without flowers, uppermost with an acute lip. 
Flowers at intervals of one-sixth of an inch along the 
rachis, about one-sixth of an inch in diameter, inserted all 
round the rachis. Perianth subcampanulate, trigonous in 
bud, yellowish purple without, pale purple within. Sepals 
broadly ovate, acute, united at the base, three-nerved ; — 
clothed with long flexuous spreading hairs within. Petals 
very minute, axe-shaped with an incurved edge. Lip 
minute, peltately attached to a curved stipes, undivided, 
cordate-oblong, obtuse, with a longitudinally rather 
thickened disk. Colwmn with a large spreading auricle on 
each side at the top.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Side view of flower; 2, front view of the same with the sepals removed, 
showing the two petals, lip, and spreading auricles of the column ; 3, sepal; 4, petal; 
5, lip; 6, side view of column and lip; 7, external, and, 8, internal view of anther- 
case ; 9, pollen :—all greatly enlarged. : 
