twelve ft. high. Leaves distichous, shortly petioled above 

 the sheathing base, oblong-lanceolate, a foot and a half long, 

 three inches broad, cuspidate, unequally rounded at the 

 base, glabrous, green on the upper surface, claret-brown 

 beneath. Peduncle arising from the rootstock separately 

 from the leafy stem, hidden by the adpressed oblong, pale 

 green, obtuse sheath-leaves. Flowers very numerous, 

 aggregated in a globose head ; outer empty bracts large, 

 ovate, obtuse, tinged with red-brown ; inner linear, nearly 

 as long as the flowers. Lobes of the calyx and corolla 

 lanceolate, green. Lip Ungulate, emarginate, a little 

 protruded from the corolla, red-brown in the middle, bright 

 yellow at the edge. Anther not distinctly crested ; cells 

 ciliated, not touching each other. Ovary 3- celled, with 

 many ovules in each cell. Style reaching to the top of the 

 anther ; stigma large, capitate. — J. G. Baker. 



Figs. 1 and 2, flowers ; 3, anther and style ; 4, back view of the same ; 

 5, apex of style, with stigma : all more or less enlarged; 6, whole plant, much 



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