all the above mentioned species is inarched so as to form 
a hood, and the whole inflorescence is sheltered by the 
patently spreading leaflets, which are decurved in the 
upper part. At Kew this species thrives well, like the 
various Himalayan species of the same genus, under 
ordinary greenhouse treatment. 
Desoription.—Herb, with a depressed globose tuberous corm which produces 
@ solitary leaf along with a solitary flower spike. Cataphylls brown, narrowed 
upwards, obtuse or acute. Leaf 3-foliolate, glabrous; leaflets spreading, 
shortly petiolulate, the central somewhat rounded, cuspidate, 11 in. long; 
lateral rather shorter than the central, cuneate at the base on the inner, 
rounded on the outer side; petiole half as long again as the lamina, fleshy. 
Pedunele erect, fleshy, 6 in. high. Spathe purple, marked with whitish lines ; 
tube nearly cylindric, 3 in. long, ¢ in. across ; limb oblong-deltoid, long 
acuminate, galeate, the throat very distinctly auricled, 5} in. long, 2} in. wide. 
Spadia 1-sexual, over 4 in, long ; appendix included in the spathe, 3 in. long, 
contracted above the flower-bearing portion, thence narrowly lanceolate 
upwards to the blunt tip, brown ; the flowers, only females seen, congested at 
the base of the spadix. Ovary angular by compression, somewhat rounded at 
the tip ; style very short and thick ; stigma penicillate ; ovules few. 
Tas. 8861.— Fig; 1, female flowers; 2, a female flower in vertical section, 
showing ovules ; 8, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 8, which is 
much reduced, 
