from half an inch to an inch and half 



breadth 



ded 



at the top 



sometimes lanceolate, sometimes of a silvery hue beneath 



and 

 purpl 



kly 



ered with minute g 



dots, at others 



Flower-stalk long, terminal, 



uprig- 



ht, 



thed by alternate sphacelate deciduous sheath 



strong 



Spike 



tirely 



>, in 

 fracted. 



bearing several sp f 



with the flowers d 



one 



a y 



many-flowered, pointi 



posed in the form of a corymb. Corolla sessile, about 



parts 



f 



lip of a yellowish herbaceous 



petals of a dusky reddish b 



with a firmness and 



ery fa 



appearance of being formed of 



N 



West 



niaica, on trees growing on the mountains. 

 Lord Gardner in 1790. 



Found by Swartz 



in Ja- 

 Introduced by 



from the same root at various t 

 the treatment which we have 

 another species (see fol. 17) froi 



Produces several flowering 



of 



Req 



dy recommended for 



» 



The drawing was made this summer from a specimen in 



the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, 

 Hammersmith. 



n A front view of the summit of the shaft of fructification with a portion 

 of the lip, showing the 4 pollen-masses as they present themselves upon the 

 removal of the anther from which they have been excreted, b The 4 pollen- 

 masses extracted from the recess in the summit of the shaft, c The anther 

 frontwise, d The converse of the same, showing its 4 partitions. All 

 Bomewhat magnified. 



