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the sepals and petals linear-oblong, yellowish green tinged 

 with brown, and the lip very large, orbicular with a cordate 

 base, and a bilobed apex, of a deep maroon-purple, greenish 

 over the disk, the whole margin deeply cut into subulate 

 segments, forming a conspicuous fringe. The plant has no 

 pseudobulbs to support it, but only a woody stem crowded 

 with greyish green leaves in two ranks whose sheathing bracts 



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entkely hide the stem itself. Of this plant Sir Joseph 

 Hooker remarks, that, " altogether the flattened stout culms, 

 and the pale glaucous colour of the foliage, and the extra- 

 ordinary appearance and lurid purple of the flower, give it a 

 most sinister appearance, and for an Orchid a most unusual 

 one." — Ecuador. 

 FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5723 ; Flo7-e des Serves, t. 1771. 



