terminal. In the other section, of which C. albiflora is the only 
species known to me, the bracts are green, free, or nearly so, 
and all floriferous. In the Enumeration of Ceylon plants, 
C. albiflora is described as having a radical spike, but in our 
cultivated specimen the spike is sessile amongst the upper 
leaves and at a considerable distance from the root. 
Drscr. Roofs tuberous and fascicled. Stem none, but the 
_ sheathing bases of the petioles which surround the scape, 
together form a compressed green stem one inch in diameter 
at the base. eaves long-petioled, glabrous, five to seven 
inches long, elliptic or ovate-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, acute at the base, somewhat plaited parallel to the 
nerves, deep green above, paler beneath ; petiole slender, two 
to three inches long, exclusive of the sheathing portion, which 
is as long. Spike sunk amongst the uppermost leaves, 
oblong, cylindric; bracts all green, loosely imbricate, two 
inches long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, the upper rather 
longer, all flower-bearing. Vowers white. Outer perianth 
spathaceous, half as long as the tube of the inner, obliquely 
split at the mouth, and 2-fid at the tip; inner perianth 
campanulate, 6-lobed, 3 outer lobes oblong, obtuse, suberect ; 
two inner broader and larger; lip suborbicular, waved at 
the edge, notched with overlapping lobules, disk yellow. 
Epigynous glands linear, obliquely truncate. Anther short 
subquadrate ; cells with short incurved spurs. Ovary 3- 
ribbed, gibbous.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, ovary and outer perianth; 3, lip, anther, and stigma ; 
4, ovary, epigynous glands and base of style :—all magnified. 
