three flowers, sessile in the axils of the- upper leaves. 
Leaves five or six, lancéolate, acuminate, six to nine inches 
long at the flowering season, bright green, with a chan- 
nelled face, and without any-distinctly-thickened horny 
border. Spathes one-flowered, two inches or more long’; 
valves not inflated, lanceolate, pale green ; pedicel very 
short. Perianth-tube slender, cylindrical, an inch or more 
long; Hmb in the type as figured bright yellow, two inches 
long; outer segments with a spreading oblong blade half 
an inch broad, with an entire orange crest running down 
the lower part; claw narrowed gradually from the apex 
to the base, without any transparent auricles; inner seg- 
ments drooping between the bases of the outer, with a 
small oblong blade and a long channelled claw. Style- 
branches above an inch long; crests large, subdeltoid. 
Anther linear, shorter than its filament. Capsule and seeds 
not seen.—J. G. Baker. 
_ Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, ‘back view of anther; 3, apex of style, with 9 
crests :—all enlarged. ‘ 
