N. Oriffithii is also in cultivation at Kew, and will, I hope, 

 appear in this work in due course, when it flowers. 



Descr. — A tall, stout, erect herb, 3-4 feet high. Stem 

 as thick as the thumb at the base, emitting very stout 

 cylindric roots. Leaves numerous towards the base of the 

 stem, 12-16 in. long, and 2 inches broad, narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, plicate. Scape about a foot high, 

 terete, green, loosely clothed with narrowly lanceolate 

 acuminate membranous green bracts tipped with brown, 

 the lower 3 inches long, the upper passing into floral 

 bracts. Raceme 6-12 inches long, dense-flowered ; bracts 

 like the cauline, but smaller, rather shorter than the 

 flowers, and as well as these puberulous. Floivers very 

 shortly pedicelled ; ovary oblong, obtusely trigonous, 

 shortly stoutly beaked ; perianth an inch long, decurved, 

 subcylmdric, golden yellow. Sepals linear-oblong, con- 

 cave, tip rounded and mucronate. Petals rather broader 

 than the sepals, dorsaliy keeled, keel rounded and exserted 

 irom the rounded tip of the petal as a green mucro like 

 that of the sepals. Lip like the petals, mucronate below 

 the concave tip, and with a thick rounded, fleshy callus, 

 which occupies nearly all its inner surface from the base 

 to the apex. Filaments 3, subequal, stout, united for 

 more than half their length with the style in a terete 

 column Anthers large, subequal, linear- oblong. Style 

 rather shorter than the stamens; stigma globose, 3-lobed. 

 Ovary 3-celled.— /. D.H. 



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