coverer. The specimen here figured flowered with Messrs. 
Veitch in July of the present year, and presented a spike 
no less than two feet long! Mr. Parish’s dried specimen and 
flowers are quite as large as ours, and differ only in having 
a broader leaf (full two inches across) and a deep purple- 
tinted lip. Z 
Desc. Stem four to eight inches high, leafy. Leaves eight 
inches long by two inches broad, coriaceous, exactly linear, 
bright green, obliquely rounded, and bifid at the apex. 
Scape one and a half to two feet high, stout, covered with 
villous hairs, three- to five-flowered. Bracts large, spatha- 
ceous, ovate, acute, green. Ovary and pedicel two inches 
long, covered with soft green villous hairs. Sepals spreading, 
pale green, two inches long by one to one and a half inches 
broad. Petals pendulous, four to five inches long, linear, 
twisted, purple with pale margins for the lower two-thirds 
of their length, apex rounded and pencilled, margin in the 
upper third greenish, waved, presenting here and there 
purple very prominent shining pencilled warts. Lip one and 
a half inches long, rounded at the base, green or purplish, 
mouth rather expanded with erect acute auricles. Sfaminode 
large, green, broadly oblong, bifid.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Staminode and stigma :—magnified. 
