two inches, resembling a éractea, all of them dark full green, 
oblong or elliptical-ovate, rather acute, subcoriaceous, fleshy, the 
margin a little recurved, the surface marked with a few, dis- 
tant, parallel, longitudinal striz. In a sterile plant sent us, the 
leaves are more nearly equal and more oblong. The flower is 
large, terminal, sessile, curved, of a uniform pale sulphur-coloured 
yellow. Ovary clavate, sessile, rising a little above the sheath 
of the upper or bracteal leaf. Sepals four inches long, erecto- 
connivent, acuminate, united for some little way above their base. 
Petals uniform with the sepals and of the same length, erecto- 
connivent. ip erect, for the greater part of its length enclosed 
within the sepals and petals, large, longer than the perianth, broadly 
obovate, retuse, clawed at the base, the apex curved back and 
much waved: the dise faintly striated, with a slight elevation 
where the claw is set on, and below that two oblong, small, in- 
curved scales or portions of the margin. Column clavate, curved, 
about two-thirds the length of the flower, yellow, deeper-coloured 
and plain in front ; the apex obscurely trifid, the lobes, especially 
the latter ones, short, obtuse; the anther-case hemispherical, 
imbedded, as it were, within the lobes, and attached to the inter- 
mediate one. 
Fig. 1. Column and ovary :—xnaé. size. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
