ground, orbicular or subreniform thick and very fleshy, 2-5 cm. 

 long-, very unequal : scape straight with 3-4 small ovate acuminate 

 erect appressed bracts. Spike dense secund with dimorphous 

 flowers, the lower fertile, passing- into the upper aborted ones ; 

 6-15 cm. long ; sepals lanceolate acute 0-5 cm. long, the odd one 

 ovate, petals oblong, 7fid at the apex, or, in the sterile flowers, 

 Tpartite, the segments longer than in the fertile ; lip concave 

 oblong- 0'9 cm. long-, multifid, the segments setaceous, spur 

 cylindrical recurved obtuse nearly half as long as the lip. Pollinia 

 clavate, the caudicles in the fertile flowers attached to a single 

 transverse filiform gland ; or in the sterile flowers sometimes or 

 always on 2 distinct glands. 



Described from several dried specimens, and a living one 

 received from Mr. T. R. Sim, from w^iich the drawing was made. 



