upper part of the long peduncle, the copious bracts, and 
the flowers and pedicels and rachis being alike of a rather 
bright red colour. It blossoms copiously in the winter and 
spring months. 
- Duscr. Stemless or caulescent. Leaves ten inches to a 
foot long, oblong, acuminate, penninerved; zerves oblique, 
dark full green above, rich purple below, on short petioles, 
which are jointed upon the long base, of which the inside 
forms a projecting membranous sheath to the scapes. Scape 
elongated, a foot to a foot and a half long, erect, terete, red 
upwards, terminated by a compound raceme, or rather compact 
panicle, of bracteated flowers. Bracteas all red, primary ones 
(at the base of the main ramifications) large, ovate, acute, con- 
duplicate ; lesser ones, or dracteoles, of the same form and colour. 
Rachis short, and pedicels articulated, red. Flowers red. Ovary 
small, turbinate, longitudinally furrowed. The outer sepals 
broad, ovate, obtuse, nearly equal, free to the base, erect. Inner 
sepals erect, very unequal, one of them deeply two-lobed, com- 
bined for a good part of their length from below among them- 
selves, and with the. broad and flat petaloid filament and style. 
Anther solitary, lateral. Style curved. Stigma grooved. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same with the outer sepals removed. 38. Labellum 
partially enfolding the stamen and style. 4. One of the inner sepals, with 
stamen and style :—magnified. 
