with dark-purple, and partially streaked with darker green, the apex obtuse, recurved • 

 two inferior sepals united into one small ovate obtuse sepal, pale, with streaks of green 

 and purple, about one-third the size of the dorsal sepal. Petals oblong-lanceolate 

 peculiarly deflexed and curved, like the horns of a buffalo, white, streaked with green 

 and purple. lAp very large, porrected, inflated, brownish-green, with purple reticula- 

 tions, convolute at the base. Sterile stamen orbiculari-lunate, greenish, purple and 

 white, downy ; between the horns of .the crescent is a downy proboscis, arising from 

 the sterile stamen. 



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Fig. 1. Front view of tlie column. 

 ditto> showing the stigma ; — magnified^ 



2. Side view of ditto. 3. View of the under side of 



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