of the midrib with large, crescent-shaped, connected, dark-green 

 blotches, having their concave sides towards the midrib, which 

 the cusps nearly or quite reach. Toward the margin the leaf is 

 similarly deeply-coloured ; petioles very slightly hairy. Scape 

 tolerably firm, about as thick as a goose-quill, cylindrical and 

 minutely hairy, shorter than the leaves. Spike two to three 

 inches long and about two inches in diameter; bracts rather 

 closely imbricated in the lower part of the spike w T ith more or 

 less spreading tips, the upper part on the outside thinly clothed 

 with long loosely appressed hairs, the upper bracts empty and 

 spreading, coloured reddish beneath towards the apices. Flowers 

 small, in fascicles of three to six in the axils of the bracts, 

 subtended by oblong or linear-oblong membranous bracteoles. 

 Calyx-limb of three equal linear segments, shorter than the tube 

 of the corolla, but several times longer than the ovary. Perianth- 

 tube included, limb exserted ; labellum blotched with pale-purple, 

 posterior segment and staminodia pale greenish-yellow. 



Fig. 1. Fascicle of flowers and buds with their bracteoles taken from the axil 

 of a bract. 2. Single flower from behind. 3. Stamen and stigma : — magnified. 



