be treated in the same way. At Chelsea it is placed in the East India honse, where it 



grows freely. 



Descr. Leaves distichous, sword-shaped, less than a foot long, very thick, with a 



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polished glossy surface. Scape twice the length of the leaves, slightly pubescent, bear- 



ing from two to five flowers. 



Bracts ovate, acute, half the length of ovary. 



Dorsal 



sepal an inch long, broadly ovate, hairy externally, striped inside with purple, ovate, 

 acute ; lateral sepals coalescing into one, resembling the upper one in form, but more 

 acuminate, striped inside with green. Petals five or six inches long by little more than 

 a quarter of an. inch wide, tapering, crenulate along their upper margin, on which are 

 some dark, hairy, glandular spots ; at the base they are of a green tint, which changes 



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into chocolate-purple for about three-fourths of their entire length. Lip small for the 



genus, about as long as upper 



sepal, unguiculate for 



less than half its length, then 



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abruptly saccate, with a curious bilobed horny process on either side, of a dirty yellow 



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Ovary pubescent, about two inches long, purplish-brown. Column or 



throughout. 



sterile stamen heart-shaped at its apex, and emarginate. 



Fig. 1. Front view of lip. 2. Side view of sterile stamen (column), with its appendages. 

 3. Front view of ditto : — magnified. 



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