Descr. Leaves distichous, sword-shaped, less than a foot long, 

 very thick, with a polished glossy surface. Scape twice the length 

 of the leaves, slightly pubescent, bearing from two to five flowers. 

 Bracts ovate, acute, half the length of ovary. Dorsal sepal an inch 

 long, broadly ovate, hairy externally, striped inside with purple, 

 ovate, acute ; lateral sepals coalescing into one, resembling the 

 upper one in form, but more acuminate, striped inside with 

 green. Petals five or six inches long by little more than a 

 quarter of an inch wide, tapering, crenulate along their upper 

 margin, on which are some dark, hairy, glandular spots ; at the 

 base they are of a green tint, which changes into chocolate- 

 purple for about three-fourths of their entire length. Lip small 

 for the genus, about as long as upper sepal, unguiculate for less 

 than half its length, then abruptly saccate, with a curious bilobed 

 horny process on either side, of a dirty-yellow throughout. Ovary 

 pubescent, about two inches long, purplish-brown. Column or 

 sterile stamen heart-shaped at its apex, and emarginate. — /. B. 



Fig. 1. Front view of lip. 2. Side view of sterile stamen (column), with its 

 appendages. 3. Front view of ditto : — magnified. 



