tbe whole pl (viz. the spike) is about six inches ; the leaves, being 
‘reclined, add 1 thing to its height.— Leaves 1acical (in t.e auly 
plant at jp. in my possession, from which this description 13 
taken), four i in number, two ou each side of the spike, embracing it 
::,elósely,. with the lower sheathing part of their petioles reclined, 
alin: acute; margins: slightly waved; smooth on both sides; 
length, exclusive of the petiole, about nine inches, and about four 
or five broad.— Petioles, including the sheathing base, from three to 
four inches lone deeply channelled, and smooth.—Spike from the 
centre of the leaves, its short scape entirely hid by their sheaths, the 
rest loosely imbricated, with large, ovate, obtuse, expanded colour- 
ed bractes ; the superior sterile, and more deeply coloured as in ihe 
other species of this family ; but here, and in no other that L have — 
yet seen, are the whole deeply coloured.— Flowers small, of a dull — 
dark pink colour, except the lower segment of the inner border, 
which is tinged with yellow.—Caíyr inülated, obscurely three- 
toothed, scaréely half the length of the tube of the corol.— Tube 
of the corol süb-cylindric ; throat campanulate. The border, stamen, 
and pistil, as. well as the nectarial scales of Koenig, as in the other 
Spores already gastribei, 
zx 17. C. petiolata, R. 
Bulbs and. salmate tubers few and small ; inward colour zx yel- 
low; tubers numerous, pendulous on short fusiform fibres. Leaves 
1 i tic e ; oblong, ovate with the base rounded, (this is the only — 
species, known to me, in which they have this form.) The whole € 
- plant uniformly green, except the lilac-coloured coma of the spike. 
A native of Pegu, and from thence sent by Mr. F. Carey to the 
eee — where it blossoms — 3 
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«Obs This species dian cons ae ou niis om ii my peres Cur- 
eaves. ‘Lhe spike is central, 
as in the other late. Dad species, ,its c coma small, and of a lilac 
colour; the bractes very perfectly united almost to the road, ren 
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