hairs ; at the base they are contracted into a short petiole. 
Scape stout, three to four inches high, clothed with obtuse 
green obtusely keeled striated sheaths, the upper of which 
are acute and margined with red. Spzkes four to six inches 
long, cylindric, rather broader upwards. Bracts closely im- 
bricated, erecto-patent, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 
cucullate, green with broad scarlet margins, retuse or trun- 
cate, or obtusely apiculate. //owers one inch long, pale straw- 
coloured, the lip reticulated in squares with brown-purple 
veins. Ovary short. Outer perianth tubular, with three short 
rounded lobes half as long as the tube of the inner perianth, 
which is one and a half inches long. Dorsal segment hooded, 
arched, linear-oblong, subacute ; outer lateral recurved, linear- 
oblong acute ; inner lateral much shorter, truncate or rounded 
at the tip. zp obovate, much shorter than the outer lateral 
segments. Sfaminodes linear, obtuse. Anther linear-oblong 
produced into an erect subulate beak as long as itself. Stigma 
of two small ciliate lobes.—J. D, H. 
Fig. 1. Flowers; 2, anther; 3, stigma; 4, ovary and staminodes :—all 
magnified, 
