angled, one-celled ovary or immature capsule^ one and a half to two inches long. Sepals 

 large, spreading, uniform in shape, but the upper one the largest, broad-ovate, acu- 

 minate, white within, streaked and mottled with dark-purple externally, and tinged 

 with yellow; the lower one is, however, formed of the two lateral combined sepals. 

 Petals four to five inches long, curved downwards, linear acuminate, tawny yellow, lined 

 and blotched with purple, ciliated on the margin at each side of the base. i?p large, 

 standing forward horizontally, the lower half contracted, the sides involute, white, the 

 rest cacullate, purplish, with red reticulated veins ; the whole shaped like a Turkish 

 slipper. Style a short white column, bearing, upon a separate branch, two orbicular, 

 yellow, sessile anthers at the base of a large, ovate, white, fleshy disk or abortive third 

 stamen : another short branch of the style bears the stigma^ a large, cordate, fleshy disk 

 yellowish, margined with a thick filamentous fringe. . * 



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Fig. 1. Style and stigma, with staminiferous column^ side view. 2. Front view of the same, 

 sliowing the two anthers. 3. View of the upper surface of the stigma. 4, Front view of a labellura. 

 5. Transverse section of an immature capsule : — all slujldly magnified. 



