the lower half or claw is convolute upon the column, but enlarged 
suddenly upwards so as to constitute a funnel-shaped petal, with 
a very large oblique limb; this /imé is three-lobed, spotted with 
pale purple,- yellow in the throat, the lateral lobes waved and 
crenated, the middle lobe very large, slightly deflexed, emarginate 
or retuse at the apex, the margin crisped and crenulate. Colma 
very long, terete, expanding at the apex in front into a large 
convex fleshy stigma, and bearing at the back of the anther a four- - 
lobed hood, each lobe beautifully fringed with long cilia. Anther- 
case helmet-shaped, acuminated. Po/len-masses on a narrow 
cuneated caudicle, with a small g/and at the base. 
Fig. 1. Column, with portion of the corolla and of the ovary. 2. Anther- 
case. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnijied. 
