or often more or less crispately pubescent. n/lorescence 
pubescent or somewhat villous throughout, made up of a 
few racemes aggregated in a narrow panicle or often 
reduced to a single raceme ; racemes few-flowered ; lower 
bracts 3-5-partite with narrow segments, upper bracts 
undivided; bracteoles 2, linear-lanceolate or linear or 
obsolete ; pedicels up to # in. long, suberect. Sepals 
greenish-white with violet veins and somewhat flushed 
with purple or violet, the uppermost hooded, more or less 
beaked, somewhat acute-tipped, about .? in. long, pubes- 
cent ; lateral widely obliquely obovate or rounded, about 
2 in. long; the lower wide-oblong, blunt, }-} in. long. 
Nectaries with a claw about 1 in. long, glabrous or occasion- 
ally pilose below, hood somewhat decurved in front or 
horizontal and inflated at the tip, lip 2-fid as long as or 
rather longer than the hood. Filaments rather wide- 
based, becoming much narrowed upwards, toothed or 
not, glabrous or occasionally hairy. Carpels 5, closely 
connivent in flower, oblong, suddenly narrowed into the 
style, white pilose, usually the white spreading hairs 
conspicuous, occasionally very few. Follicles oblong, 
truncate, closely set, 1} in. long, usually pilose. Seeds 
obpyramidal, 3-angled, ;';—} in. long, the angles unequally 
winged. 
Fig. 1, a flower with two sepals removed; 2, nectary; 8, stamen; 4, pistil :-— 
all enlarged. 
