so deeply sunk in the pouches formed by the bracts. Kox- 

 burgh states that the pouches are uncommonly deep in this 

 species, and that the rounded or cordate base of the leaf is 

 peculiar to it. 



Descr. Eootstock rather slender, with small tuberous roots, 

 both yellow internally. Leaves six to ten inches long, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, bright 

 deep green, rather paler below ; petiole four to six inches 

 long, rather slender. Spike five to six inches long, on a ter- 

 minal, short, stout peduncle, broader upwards, two inches 

 diameter across the bracts below, three to three and a half 

 inches across the uppermost bracts, which form a rather de- 

 pressed head. Bracts about twenty to thirty, connate 

 for about half their length, forming deep pouches which 

 wholly include the flowers, green with recurved rose-pink 

 margins; lower reniform, one to one and a quarter inches 

 in diameter, with narrow recurved rounded margins; free 

 portions of the uppermost produced into a horizontal, ovate, 

 subacute limb, of a deeper and brighter rose-purple. Flowers 

 pale yellow. Ovary pubescent. Calyx-tube shorter than the 

 corolla-tube, with three blunt lobes. Corolla-tube cylindric 

 below, campanulate above ; three outer lobes broadly ovate 

 concave, obtuse ; two lateral inner lobes rather longer than 

 the outer, rounded at the tips. Lip broadly reniform, two- 

 thirds of an inch in diameter, short, recurved, split at the tip, 



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J*!* *' Fn f' and 2 ' ^ Vi6W ° f aflowe r ; 3, anther, upper part of style, 

 and stigma; ±, ovary and stammodes :-all magnified. 7 



