minate point, unequal at the base, and obliquely decurrent 
on a very short slender petiole. Sheath five to eight inches 
long in its loose open part, which is rather membranous and 
finely striate; ligule oblong, scarious, half an inch long. 
Blade with a distinct midrib, striated with innumerable fine 
parallel diverging nerves. Flowering scape six inches high; 
Jruiting, one to one and a half foot, erect, slender, red-brown, 
covered with appressed obtuse sheaths of a darker red-brown ; 
those surrounding the flowers distichous, gradually larger, 
retuse or emarginate, green, mottled with brown, and with 
brown margins. flowers suberect, three inches long, 
altogether of a fine bright rose-purple. Spathaceous or outer 
perianth short, obliquely truncate, subacute. Dorsal petal 
narrow, oblong, obtuse, arched, very concave, twice as long 
as the stamens; lateral lanceolate, decurved. Lip two to 
two and a half inches in diameter, lamina orbicular, waved, 
almost plicate.  Staminodes linear, obliquely truncate. 
Anther pubescent, with the connective produced at the top 
into two spreading linear-oblong obtuse incurved horns; fila- 
ments with an erect subulate basal appendage on each side. 
Stigma small, capitate, excavated.. Fruit three inches long; 
narrowly flagon-shaped. Seeds subpyriform, like grape- 
stones; testa bright pale brown, very shining, nearly taste- 
less—J. D. H. = : 
Fig. 1. Ovary and spathaceous perianth. 2. Anther. 3. Staminodes. 
4. Ovule in its aril. 5. Seed ate | 2 magnified, 
