men; from the latter by a spike, in which the bractes are 
shorter than the flowers; from both by a narrow linear sub- 
acuminate label. 
We did not inspect the root; but learned from Mr. 
Griffin, that it was a round undivided tuber. Stem about a 
foot and half high, with the thickness of a common pen, 
upright, green, leafy quite to the spike. Leaves stemelasp- 
ing, lanceolately ligulate, scattered, almost upright, stand- 
ing pretty far asunder, but much longer than the intervals, 
grass-green, decrescent upwards, keeled by a thickish mid- 
rib, red at the lower part, especially those nearest the root, 
longer ones about 9 inches in length, and about ¿ of an inch 
broad. Spike many-flowered, subcylindrically but loosely 
elongated. Bractes convolute, lanceolate, pointed, upright, 
somewhat shorter than the flowers, having near the base a 
colourless membranous margin, at their end а red point. 
· Flowers without smell, including the germen about an inch 
long. Corolla greenish, resupinate, ringent, spreading: 
galea broad, obovate, upright, arched, but little shorter 
than its spur, a deep rose-colour on the inside, which colour 
shines through the green of the outside, spur slightly com- 
pressed green: tico lateral petals of the lower lip (like 
the galea, exterior) linearly oblong, greenish white, some- 
what blunt, depressed at the margin, convex, slanting 
towards the labellum, sometimes bent so far back as for 
their points to meet behind the germen, stained and dotted 
at their bases with purple: labellum of the same length as 
these but twice as narrow, green, dependent in front of the 
germen, linear, polished, thickening towards the end and 
convex: two upper lateral petals interior (as is the labellum, 
with which they agree in colour and substance) placed 
within the arch of the galea, and but little shortcr than 
that, upright, standing broadways in relation to each other, 
with their inner edge towards the galea, very broad at the 
base, and from thence abruptly tapered, lanceolate, with a 
slantedly blunt point, emarginate, dotted above the base. 
Anther veversed over the summit of the column; its outer 
wall upright, incomplete at the end towards the galea, eared 
on each side, ears reversely folded, and let into a hollow 
at the base of the two inner petals. 
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а An outline of the corolla, with the galea forced back, 5 Anther. 
