with long, lax, spreading rufous-brown hairs. Leaves 
distichous, long-petioled, five to seven inches long, linear- 
oblong, or -lanceolate, acuminate, margin strongly waved, 
base rounded or cuneate, thin, bright green above, beneath 
pale blueish green with a violet blush, and a stout 
midrib ; petiole nearly as long as the blade, red-brown, 
strict, erect. Scape two inches long, very stout. Spike 
two to three inches long, and nearly as broad, dense fid. ; 
bracts (the lowest one inch long), hirsute, ovate, spirally 
convolute, much shorter than the inflorescence. Flowers 
golden-yellow, exserted far beyond the bracts. Sepals 
three, very slender, acuminate, pilose, shorter than the 
corolla-tube, which is terete, hairy. Corolla nearly an inch 
across the limb; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse. Lobes of the 
androecium much broader than the petals, upper and 
lower (or lip) subequal, the latter concave, 2-fid at the 
tip, with involute margins ; appendage of the staminode 
helmet-shaped, with a horizontal subulate spur at its base. 
—J.D, H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, tip of sepal seen from within; 3 and 4, staminode; 
5, androecium :—A// enlarged. 
