former varicosely permanent at the under surface of the 
foliage. Scape round, very slender, many-flowered, three 
times the length of the leaves: as the flowers drop knobbed 
with the remains of the bractes. Flowers disposed in a 
scattered spike, subtended by lanceolate taper-pointed de- 
ciduous bractes, twice shorter than the germen, of a yel- 
lowish green colour, paler on the inside and slightly suf- 
fused with red. Petals of the corolla spreading, ovate, 
pointed, inner a little smaller. Zabel pendulous, funnel- 
form; spur clubbed at the top, the middle lobe nearly 
obliterated and its place supplied by a sort of fringe. Co- 
lumn detached, flat in front, slightly ciliate at the edge, - 
ovate, ending at the front in an elongated rostel or beaklike 
appendage. Secreting surface of the stigma (gynizus) a 
transverse hollow. Anther terminal, lid-shaped, deciduous, 
of one cell, with a projecting apex beneath, covering by its 
beaklike point the gland of the pollen-masses, elongated at 
the back near the fringe or joint by which it is connected 
with the column, where it is also purplish. Pollen-masses 2, 
divided into two lobes for half their length at the back, 
held together by a filiform glandular corpuscle. 
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