bya single, large, elliptical, acute, waved, and strongly- 
striated leaf. From the very base of the bulb descends a 
scape, sheathed with membranous bracteas, and bearing two 
large flowers. Perianth of an uniform ivory-white. Lip 
white, thick and fleshy, marked below, in front, with reddish- 
purple blotches. Column directed downwards, very long, 
semicylindrical, pale green, with a broad, membranous 
wing towards the extremity, remaining perfect some time 
after the decay of the perianth. Aniher hemispherical. 
Pollen-Masses club-shaped : gland cordate. Germen very 
long, clavato-cylindrical, furrowed. 
Fig. 1. Upper portion of a Column, from which the Anther-case has been 
removed. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-Masses. 4. Young Fruit with the 
withered Perianth: magnified. 
