spreading, firm, rather thick, linearly lorate, channelled, 
about six inches long, bright green, unequally retuse, the 
lobe of one side being higher than the other. Stem leaf- 
less, lateral between the leaves, ascendent, mottled with 
dark-purple, round, smooth, rigid, about a foot and half 
high, flexuose and slightly kneed, sheathed at: the joints by 
a short cylindrical sterile bracte, panicled; spikelets few, 
many-flowered, alternate, distant, wide spread, the end. 
one upright and continuous. Flowers deep yellow, marked. 
with brownish red, without scent, upright, not reversed 
or resupinate, sessile; bractes one to each flower, ovately 
acuminate yellow, placed against the germen, which is 3 or 
A times higher. Germen upright with a curve, round and 
sixstreaked, yellowish green, % of an inch long, Corolla 
bilabiate, semiringent, stiffish: petals 5, spreading in a 
semicircle, of one length, a third shorter than the germen ; 
the upper middle one somewhat aloof from the rest, obo- 
vately oblong, and slightly vaulted ; ¢wo upper lateral ones 
narrower, linearly oblong, obtuse: two lower ones twice 
broader, grown to the unguis of the label by the lower part 
of each side, rather pointed, marked with a red stain above, 
slanting upwards: label outstretched, stiff, fleshy, spurred, 
dinted underneath, connected by its unguis with the column, 
3-lobed with a white channelled furred palate or boss in the 
middle, the two side lobes turned up, toothshaped, crimson, 
end one spurbearing yellowish white trifid, the central lobule 
capitate and beaked, the two side ones subulate and out- 
spread, the three composing an image that may be fancied 
to resemble a bird in miniature; spur pale-coloured oblong, 
conical, slightly inflated and didymously- divided by a 
shallow furrow, hanging before the germen which it nearly 
equals, vertically two-chambered within. The whole label 
is reversed over the column before the flower opens. Column 
oblong, upright, nearly cylindrical, green, crimson below, 
but little shorter than the petals, having a central cavity in 
front, with an oblong bordered orifice, bidentate at the 
apex (the teeth being probably the rudiments of two fila- 
ments?). Anther terminal, moveable, with a convex lid- 
shaped bilocular receptacle: pollen-masses two sessile, 
very hard, homogeneous, hemispheerical, transversely bi- 
sected, smooth, deep yellow, placed sideways to each 
other by the plane part, inserted at the forked gland of the 
stigma, Stigma of two vertical parallel teethlike, pale, 
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