Duscr. Corm the size of a walnut. Leaves a foot long, 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, trigonous, acutely keeled. 
at the back, channelled in front, very pale green. Scape four 
to twelve feet long, twining amongst the branches of bushes, 
one quarter inch in diameter, green varied with pink. 
Umbel large, three to four inches in diameter, of very many 
(twelve to twenty) pedicelled rosy flowers ; pedicels a quarter 
to one inch long; spathes four or five, oblong-lanceolate, 
concave, shorter than the rosy pedicels, tipped with green. 
Flower three-quarters of an inch long. Perianth between 
campanulate and funnel-shaped; tube 5-lobed, tumid; seg- 
ments erect, ovate, obtuse. -Anthers three, opposite the inner 
perianth lobes; adnate to and winged by the broad filament 
behind it. Staminodes ligulate, notched, pubescent. Ovary 
shortly stipitate, ellipsoid 3-gonous.—/. D. //. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, vertical section of do. ; 8, staminode :—all magnified. 
