there with a paler colour, obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 
spreading. Scape erect, two feet high, at the base smooth 
and sheathing, upwards hairy, as well as the flowers. 
Bractee ovate-lanceolate, rigid, hairy, smooth at base, with 
green veins the length of the ovarium. Ovarium about an 
inch long, villous. Perianthium conniving, with fleshy 
parallel segments; the upper shrivelled at the base, oblong, 
recurved at the apex, shining inside; the inner lateral ones 
a little shorter, obtuse, appressed, shining, dark green; the 
lower lateral. ones at the base running down the ovarium 
nearly the whole of its length, with their front edge sepa- 
rate, with an obtuse, blunt lamina, longer than the labellum. 
Labellum cucullate, cuneate, pedicellate, sagittate at base, 
with the edges firmly adhering to the sides of the columna, 
at the end deltoid, with green veins. Colwmna short, toothed 
at the back edge, pubescent in front. Stigma vertical, 
like a slit half-closed, rostrate, emarginate. Avither stalked, 
rostrate, 2-celled. Pollen-masses two, 2-lobéd, with a cau- 
dicula adhering to an emarginate gland. 
Jide, 
