wide ovate, with reflexed edges, densely clothed above, more 
sparingly beneath with reddish hairs, about § in. long, 
4 in. wide, with a broad ascending claw. Corolla scarlet 
and yellow, 23-3 in. long, sparingly villous outside with 
short hairs; tube a little over 1 in. long, very gibbous at 
the base behind, somewhat constricted above the swelling, 
thereafter widening slightly to the mouth, yellow in front ; 
limb markedly 2-lipped, slightly curved forward and much 
widened upward, anterior lobe straight, oblong-lanceolate, 
about 14 in. long, over } in. wide, lateral lobes about 14 in. 
long, over 1 in. wide, connate with the hood; hood distinctly 
emarginate with rounded lobes. Stamens 4; filaments 
glabrous, united in front in a sheath 3-4 lin. long, which is 
partially adnate to the corolla tube ; anthers united at their 
tips. Disk composed of a solitary, posticous slightly 
einarginate gland continuous with a narrow ring surround- 
ing the base of the ovary. Ovary adpressed hairy ; 
placentas 2-lamellate, introrsely ovuliterous; style villous 
above with long, jointed hairs mixed with shorter glandular 
tipped ones, below sparingly puberulous. 
Fig. 1, a single sepal; 2, base of corolla, seen in section and showing 
staminal attachment; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, ovary and posticous disk-gland ; 
6, stigma :—all enlarged. 
