A genus established under the present name by Dr. 

 Swartz. Its species are numerous, and found in the East 

 Indies, New Holland, and Van Diemen's Island. The 

 flowers, after some contestation anions; botanists in regard 





to their structure, are proved to be gy nandrous, with two 

 anthers ; but still of a nature that brings them in contact 

 with the Campanalacece, and not with the Orchidece. 



We know of no representation of the present species 

 taken from the living plant. It was found by Sir Joseph 

 Banks in New South Wales ; afterwards by Mr. Brown in 

 Van Diemen's Island. Root fibrous, perennial. Leaves 

 radical, ambient, numerous, lanceolate-linear, denticulate. 

 Scape central, a foot or more high, longer than the foliage, 

 leafless, simple, round, about as thick as a straw of grass, 

 as well as the inflorescence beset throughout with glandular 

 hairs (something in the way of Drosera.) Racemes spiked, 

 upright, numerous; larger bractes ovate, concave, single; 

 smaller nearer to the germen, double. Cal. superior, per- 

 sistent, bilabiately parted; upper lip trifid, lower bind. 

 Cor. of a dim pink colour, monadclphous, tubular, by a 

 half-contortion of the tube from facing the lower lip of the 

 calyx, turned to face one side of the insterstice between 

 the two lips : tube longer than the calyx, orifice beset by 

 4 small bifid teethlike lobules : limb quinquepartite, irregu- 

 lar, patent ; 4 larger segments obovate, in pairs, one of 

 each pair somewhat smaller ; the fifth or labelluni placed 

 in front, separated by a deeper fissure, small, deflected 

 below the divisions of the other four on one side of the 

 interlabial cleft of the calyx, oblong, with two minute as- 

 cendent linear lobules one on each side its base, thickened 

 and somewhat convex inwards at the disk. Germen obovate, 

 brownish : column rising from the summit of this, linear, 

 longer than the limb, reclined and bent with a double curve, 

 protruding from the corolla thro' the gap left by the depres- 

 sion of the labelluni, but upon the slightest excitement 

 beneath the outermost curve, passing with a sudden spring 

 to the opposite side of the flower, hanging over the limb 



with the stigma pointing downwards. An endowment 

 apparently given to preserve the parts intrusted to its 

 care from being injured by insects, previous to the com- 

 pletion of the purpose for which they have been designed. 

 Anthers two, yellow, incumbent on the plane of the stigma 

 which crowns the shaft of the column, two-lobed, lobes 

 from vertical diverging divaricately. Stigma green, obtuse, 



