10 in. high, 1-2-foliate below, closely 2-flowered at the apex. Spathes herbaceous, 
green, wide oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, very acutely — 
keeled, 1}-2in. long. Pedicel very short. Perianth with the tube greenish 
or upwards somewhat flushed or blotched with purple, 1-1} in. long, shorter than 
or at the most equalling the spathes ; outer segments with a reflexed elliptic or 
obovate limb, 1J-1} in. long, 3-1 in. wide, yellowish but suffused with purple 
towards the margin and with a yellow crest, or lurid purple throughout and then 
with a bright blue crest ; claw narrowly cuneate, }—1 in. long, with rather pale 
purple veins; inner segments erect, the lamina bluntly elliptic or obovate, 
suddenly or less often gradually contracted into a red-blotched claw, including 
the claw 14-2} in. long, 1-1} in. wide, of the same colour as the outer segments, 
but rather’: more vivid. Anthers rather shorter than the filaments. Ovary 
oblong, 2-%in. long; style-arms wide oblong, pale purple or yellowish ; lobes 
of the crest obliquely ovate, toothed. 
Tab. 8812.—Figs. 1 and 2, stamens ; 3, stigma :—all enlarged. 
