about as long as the leaves. Spathe very ventricose, three 
or four inches long; outer valves lanceolate, pale green ; 
pedicel short. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, an inch long. 
Perianth tube cylindrical, about as long as the ovary; 
limb three or four inches long; outer segments obovate, 
much reflexed, two inches broad, pale grey lilac with 
darker stripes, copious minute red-brown dots, a dark 
red-brown throat and a broad claw below it with scattered 
gland-tipped brown hairs; inner segments incurved, 
orbicular, three inches broad, narrowed suddenly to a 
distinct claw, plain pale lilac. Style branches above an 
inch long, convex on the back; crests large, quadrate. 
Anther pale yellow, linear, about as long as the flattened 
‘brown filament.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Anther; 2, apex of style-branch, with crests :—both enlarged. 
