Descr. Stemless. Leaves rising directly from the root in a 
somewhat caspitose manner, distichous or pointing two ways, 
oblong-strap-shaped, acute, whole-coloured, the bases carinate 
and equitant. Scape longer than the leaves, erect, terete, green, 
downy, single-flowered. /Yower large, extremely beautiful, aris- 
ing from a terminal, sheathing, acute, woolly éract, which em- 
braces the lower part of the dark-purple, elongated, glanduloso- 
pilose, somewhat fusiform ovary. Perianth much spreading, 
dorsal or superior sepal very large, cordiform, pale greenish-white, 
beautifully veined with dark-purple, and partially streaked with 
darker green, the apex obtuse, recurved; two inferior sepals united 
into one small ovate obtuse sepal, pale, with streaks of green 
and purple, about one-third the size of the dorsal sepal. Petals 
oblong-lanceolate, peculiarly deflexed and curved, like the horns 
of a buffalo, white, streaked with green and purple. zp very 
large, porrected, inflated, brownish-green, with purple reticula- 
tions, convolute at the base. Sterile stamen orbiculari-lunate, 
greenish, purple and white, downy; between the horns of the 
crescent is a downy proboscis, arising from the sterile stamen. 
Fig. 1. Front view of the column. 2. Side view of ditto. 3. View of the 
under side of ditto, showing the stigma :—magnified. 
