subterete long-pointed green leaves a foot long, deeply 
channelled down the face, and higher up several others, 
which grow gradually smaller till the uppermost is én- 
tirely bract-like and adpressed. Spathe inflated, two 
inches long; valves greenish and moderately firm at the 
flowering time; pedicel very short. Flower scentless; 
ovary cylindrical, acutely trigonous, an inch long; perianth- 
tube green, slender, above an inch long; limb bright lilac, 
an inch and a half long; outer segments with an obovate 
reflexing blade, about as long as the cuneate claw, with a 
‘bright yellow keel down the face, which is furnished with 
a few gland-tipped hairs like those of the beard of a 
Pogoniris ; inner segments as long as the outer, erect, 
obovate-unguiculate, half an inch broad. Style-branches 
reddish-lilac, under an inch long; crests small, erect, 
deltoid. Anthers yellow, half an inch long.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther ; 3, top of style-branch, 
with crests and stigmas :—all enlarged. 
