of applying themselves to the lip as is usually the case, turn 

 directly away from it, placing themselves at an acute angle 

 with the upper sepal, and after a while collapsing at their 

 sides till they look something like bats' wings half at rest. 

 The petals, which are narrowly lanceolate, very weak and 

 much curved at the edge, have the same colour and texture 

 as the sepals nearly, and are intermediate in length between 

 the upper one and those at the side; they hang nearly parallel 

 with the column, but are so placed as to conceal in no degree 

 the lip ; nature taking most especial care to exhibit this 

 strange part in the most conspicuous manner. The lip is as 

 fleshy and solid in its texture as the sepals and petals are de- 

 licate; it is seated on a deep purple stalk, nearly an inch long, 

 and forming an obtuse angle with the column, and conse- 

 quently an acute one with the ovary ; this stalk terminates in 

 a hemispherical greenish-purple cup, or rather cap consi- 

 dering its position, and the latter, contracting at its front edge, 

 extends forward into a sort of second stalk of a very vivid 

 blood colour, the sides of which are thinner than the centre, 

 turned back, and marked with 4 or 5 very deep solid sharp- 

 edged plaits. These plaited edges again expand and form a 

 second cup, less lobed than the first, thinning away very much 

 to the edges, of a broadly conical figure, with a diameter of 

 at least two inches at the orifice ; this second cup is of an 

 ochrey yellow, streaked and spotted with pale crimson, and 

 seems intended to catch a watery secretion which drips into 

 it from two succulent horns which take their origin in the base 

 of the column, and hang over the centre of the cup. 



Of course this species will require the heat of a damp 

 stove. 



