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Ligulae lobi rotundati, hirti, cum margine vaginae exsertae auriculatim 

 prominentes. 



. Inflorescentia centralis, pedunculo paulium supra foliorum vaginas exce- 

 dente, internodio superiore longitudine valde varia. 



Folium pedunculare forma valde varium. Bracteae a basi inde florigerae, 

 nunc laxae sat remotae (in Stirpe pauperi), nune numerosissimae (80), den- 

 sissimae, ommes angustae, puberulae apice rotundatae, inferiores ultra 

 medium adnatae, pleraeque vix ad medium usque, parte libera canaliformi 

 valde constricta apice patula. 



Comae bracteae paucis summis exceptis fere ad dimidium adnatae. 



Bracteae omnes intense purpureae, pro parte inferiore magis minusve 

 viridi-mixtae, infimae apice tantum pallide-rubrae. 



Bracteolae parvae. Flores graciles fere inclusi vel apice émergentes. 

 Faux infundibularis, tubus mediocris apice vix dilatatus, labellum rhombi- 

 forme apice emarginatum, Staminodia elliptica obtusa, plana, vix plicata; 

 petala oblongo-ovata, apice obtusa. Calyx brevis distincte obtuse dentatus 

 vel truncatus, hirtellus. Antherae prope basin dorso affixae filamento brevi, 

 angustae, brevi-calcaratae, puberulae, calcaribus sulcatis. 



Flores lutei, labellum aurantiacum ; petala tenuia apice' pallide rosea 

 vel albida. Calyx apice roseus. 



The bulb is of mediocre size. It is often obconical (60X35) and 

 hung all around with the short rhizomes consisting of 4 or 5 circles and 

 curving upward at a length of 30 mm., forming new bulbs. Older bulbs 

 are mostly conical or bulbiform but very often they are falcate in the 

 middle in consequence of their origin from curved rhizomes. The secundary 

 rhizomes are few and short, often it is only the last bud which developes 

 making with the terminal bud a kind of dichotomous top. Characteristic 

 for this species are rather thin (5 mm.) creeping stolones which form 

 small bulbs at their top. The tallest rhizomes I saw were 60 — 70 X 20; 

 mostly they are shorter and the bulbs are assembled in groups. 



The colour is light sallow-yellow externally. The scales soon decay and 

 fall off. The colour on the section is very light yellow (221 — 216). The 

 taste is bitter and aromatic reminding ginger. The roots are cordshaped, 

 often fleshy and thick near the base. Pendulous tubers are very numerous 

 in old specimens. They often show two shapes, elliptical-fusiform to70X 

 20 long, which pass again downwards in roots and small ones as hazel- 

 nuts and pigeon's eggs. On the section thay are snow-white with a very 

 light-yellow endodermis. The contents are viscous as lime. They hang on 

 cord-roots which are 100 — 150 m.m. long. As well Wallich as Rumph 

 mention the hazelnut-shaped tubers. 



The leaves are dimorphous. All the leaves of a first-flowering strong 

 plant of a rhizome are very broadly rotundate-ovate with a rounded or 



