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lieve, never till now been introduced into any european 
garden, nor been represented anywhere from the living 
lant. Root perennial, fibrous, fibres thickish, simple, wiry, 
horizontal. Stem under six inches high, upright, simple, 
two-leaved, one-flowered. Leaves halfstem-embracing and 
decurrent, blade oval-lanceolate, three-nerved, that of the 
lower leaf an inch and half long, of the upper scarcely half 
an inch. Flower nutant, oblong, semicampanulate, semi- 
ringent, about half an inch long: petals 5, of a palish pink: 
or lilac colour, ascendent, vaulted, of one length, three outer 
ones divergent, linear-lanceolate, concave, twice the nar- 
towest or more; inner iwa obovately oblong, converging 
imbricately under the arch of the mìddle of the three outer- 
most. Lip scarcely longer than these, obovate, somewhat 
contracted at the sides below the middle, bearded by a nar- 
row pectinated purple-streaked horizontal fringe round the 
front edge, beset within by a level-topped crest or comb of 
compact hairs, growing shorter as they descend inwards, 
unguis or narrow part somewhat tumid or enlarged at the 
base. Column twice shorter than the lip to which it is 
pressed down, semicylindrically clavate, streaked trans- 
versely by purple lines, rounded at the back, flat in front, 
clasped at the base by the inflected sides of the unguis or 
narrow portion of the lip, at the top dentately cleft on each 
side, lobules contiguous. Anther persistent. Pollen mealy. 
We had not an opportunity of examining the anther and 
stigma so completely as we wished. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 
ville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. ‘The plant is most 
probably quite hardy; but in order to secure its flowering 
it was planted in bog-earth, and the pot placed in a pan of 
water m the hothouse, as soon as the roots arrived from 
America. Without this treatment we should most likely not 
have been enabled to have procured the present figure of it. 
— 
a The outline of an artificially extended flower. 5 ‘The-column with the 
anther turned up ous of its place of insertion. 
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