Gardens in 1899 by A. H. Hildebrand, Hsq., C.I.E.; it 
flowered in a stove in October, 1900. The flowers assume 
a blue colour on fading. 
Descr.—An erect, much-branched, leafy herb. Stem 
and branches rather stout, terete, coloured. Leaves two 
to three inches long, ovate, acuminate, serrulate, base 
rounded, with two clavate, erect glands on the under- 
surface at the point of attachment of the petiole which is 
eglandular. Flowers axillary, solitary, two inches long, 
pendulous from an arching peduncle an inch long, which 
bears one or two minute setaceous bracteoles, near, or 
above the base. Sepals two, orbicular-oblong, obtuse, 
green. Standard orbicular, concave, pale rose-coloured, 
two-thirds of an inch broad. Wings one and a half inches 
long ; basal lobe orbicular, concave, erect ; terminal longer, 
obliquely oblong, recurved, suffused and streaked with 
red. Lip as long as the wings, conico-campanulate, in- 
curved, narrowed at the base into a short, hooked spur, 
white with an irregular dash of bright carmine on the 
convex surface towards the base; mouth large, with an 
obtuse apex.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, undersurface of base of leaf, showing the glands; 2, wing-petal; 
8, stamens; 4, young pistil :—all enlarged. 
