This is a high-resolution digital download of Plate 4151 from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. The original illustration was hand-colored in the 1800s. This listing includes both the botanical image and its accompanying description tab.

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Botanical Description Plant terrestrial. Root of large, coarse, tortuose,

rather woolly fibres. From the summit of this, rises a singular, • Thrifty Whiskers large, oblong or oblong-ovate, inflated, membranaceous sheath, which surrounds the lower part of the scape and base of the leaves. Leaves two, a foot and more long, broadly oblong, acuminate, closely striated and plaited, tapering at the base. Scape radical, a foot or a foot and a-half long, erect, terete, bracteated; bractea lanceolato-subulate, the lower ones distant, sheathing. Raceme, or rather spike, six to eight inches long, with many cream-colored blossoms. Sepals and petals scarcely at all spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, decurved, the petals shorter than the sepals. Lip oblong- ovate, acute, decurved, entire, with three red spots at the apex. Column semicylindrical, white, with transverse red- dish streaks in front. Anther-case acuminated. Pollen- masses four, with a gland and short caudicle. andam ele signaldo-olal bdled-obncaq avok is removed.

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