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Flower about 18-27 mrn. across, violet, inodorous, nodding. 

 Sepals glabrous (but often slightly pubemilent in back in those 

 of the cleistogamous flowers), subulato-lanceolate or ovato- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, entire, thin and narrowly scarious on 

 margin, triplinerved, herbaceous, light green and sometimes 

 thinly shaded with purple, 5-8i^ mm, long (often very slightly 

 longer in those of the cleistogamous flowers) ; basal-auricles 

 depressed-square or semiorbicular, truncate or rounded or 

 retuso-rounded at the apex, glabrous or thinly ciliolated (much 

 so in those of the cleistogamous flowers) on margin, 1— lA^ mm. 

 long, those of the inner 2 much smaller and deltoid. Petals 

 glabrous, entire, thin ; upper 2 obovate or obovato-elliptical, 

 rounded or subretuso-rounded at the apex, subcuneately at- 

 tenuated and short-subungu'culate (slighth- white in the anguis) 

 at the base, 12-17 mm. long, 7-11 mm. broad ; lateral 2 some- 

 what oblique in form, obovato-elliptical, rounded or retuso- 

 rounded at the apex, subcuneate and subunguiculate at the 

 base, naked (bi.'ardless) on the face, white and violet-veined 

 towards the base, 13-17 mm. long, 6—9 mm. broad ; lower one 

 obovate, cuneately attenuated below, emarginato-rounded or 

 eniarginate at the apex, 12-16 mm. long, 8-11 mm. broad, 

 violet and deep-violet-veined above, white and flabellately deep- 

 violet-veined below or below and centrally; spur straight, 

 oblong-tubular or linear-tubular, rounded or rounded-obtuse at 

 the apex, often compressed laterally, violascent, glabrous, 7—8 

 mm. long. Stamens 3-4 mm. long; anther cream-pallid and 

 sometimes violascent dorsally, rectangular-elliptical ; connective- 

 tip as long as the anther, ovate, acutish oi- obtuse, thin, rufes- 

 cent ; anther- appendages linear-filiform, attenuated above, viri- 

 descent, glabrous, 5-5 J mm. long. Ovar^' ovoid or ovoid- 



ellipsoid, glabrous, viridescent and sometimes thinly shaded 

 with violascent tint, l|-2mm. long; style equal to or scarcely 

 longer than the ovary, ctavately enlarged towards the stigma, 

 geniculate near the base, pale, glabrous ; stigma deltoid mar- 

 ginate, truncate, with obtuse angles ; ovules man}', ellipsoid. 

 Capsule ellipsoid, 3— facial with obtuse angles (the face with 

 very shallow vertical grooves, the middle groove is the sutural 



