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The pendulous tubers are ellipsoidal and pass again into roots. They 

 are internally light-grey with a yellow or lemonyellow endoderniis (206— 186). 



A flower-bearing plant has 8 leaves, the petioles of the 6 middlest 

 of these are successively 50,110,150.180,260,300, the dimensions 290X 125, 

 360X155, 450X180, 480X185, 550X175, 525X190, 510X190, 510X 

 170. P. is average 2.5; in the narrowest leaf 3; in the youngest not full- 

 grown leaf but one; 3.8. The leaves belong thus to the broadest. 



The colour is light-green (303) without any brown in the mid-rib of 

 the first leaf. The backside between 312 and 317. The base of the leaf is 

 first seemingly rounded by the folding of the edge. 



The sheath and leaf-edge as well as the ligula entirely finely hairy. 

 The inflorescence which appears in the common way between the leaf- 

 sheaths, has a bract-shaped peduncular leaf, placed very near the inflores- 

 cence and as usually triangular shaped. (60X60). In the examined spikes 

 are + 30 bracts, which are broadly ovate, rather blunt, not acuminate, but 

 they form with their upcurved sidelobes shallow wide gutters which for a 

 greater part, are longer than the wide pouches, only some of the undermost 

 are as long or somewhat shorter. The coma-leaves are broad, rather blunt 

 and without a mucro. Of the above mentioned spike, the average (lowest) 

 bracts measured 46X34, another, 50X34, of which just the half formed 

 the pouch; a coma-leaf measured 72X36, pouch 20. The colour of the 

 lowest 14 bracts is very light-pure-green (286 and 291). Higher upward 

 the tops become spotted violet and the lowest half of the 6 coma-bracts 

 is nearly white, the middle pink, the top rather dark-violet (587, 578 and 

 578 B.) 



The coma-bracts are, especially at the top, on both sides and on the 

 edge short, not densely hairy. The edges of the bracts are very short hairy. 



In, each pouch are three flowers which occasionally protrude especially 

 below, but most of them do not. The bracteoles are not longer than 

 the tube. 



The structure of the flower is like that of C. purpiirascens etc. The 

 labellum, however, is less protruded and the whole fore-edge is entire with 

 a small incision at the top. The colour of the petals is very light-pink 

 (3 A.), the lip etc. common orange (171—166, mid-band 156). The teeth 

 of the calyx are nearly truncate and want a mucro at the top. The corolla 

 is slender. By a flowerlength of 48, the greatest breadth of the faux 

 (when flattened) is 22 — 25, the tube is 16—18 mm. long, the faux 15 mm. 

 the lip (when flattened) 15— 16X 16— 17, narrowed at the base into a claw; 

 the staminodes oblong-elliptical, blunt, narrowed at the base and inward 

 bent at the top. The filament (the free portion) is 4 X 4. The lateral 

 corolla-lobes are broadly rounded, oblong-ovate, the dorsal lobe is glabrous 

 and has an oblique mucro which is hairy. The stylodes are 5 mm. 



