thrice shorter hracte at the base. Germen more than an 

 inch long-, gi"eenish white, slender, slightly clavate, shal 



lowly bent somewhat in the form of an S, ang^ularly 

 fluted, twisted. Cot^olla of one colour, very slightly nutant, 

 radiately spread, about | inch across, nearly equal: 5 petals 

 of the same shape, standing asunder, ascending slightly to- 

 wards the upper middle one, linearly oblong, acuminate, 

 narrow, flat; 3 exterior ones revolute; 2 lower lateral ones 

 with the lower part applied broadways to the sides of the 

 label, diverging upwards revolutely: fo^e/ pointing foi-wards 

 and recurved, oblong, biformed, not longer and scarcely 

 broader than the other five petals; unguis detached, cune- 

 ately oblong, convolutely concave, with a pointed toothlike 

 lobe on each side at the top, marked where it joins the 

 lamina with a transverse plait; lamina or blade narrower, 

 scarcely longer than the unguis, oblong, slightly tapered, 

 truncately retnse, subdeflectent; spur detached, filiform, 

 equal to or rather longer than the germen, turned up front- 

 ways with a circular bend, so that the point becomes even 

 with or higher than the rest of the corolla, yellow andbluntish 

 at the end. Column white, oblong, about thrice shorter than 

 the corolla, detached, hollowed its whole length in fi*ont, the 

 cavity Incumbent upon the parallel one of the unguis^ of the 

 label. Anther hemispherical, terminal, moveable, deciduous, 

 bilocular; pollen-masses two, yellow, opaquely frosted, solid, 

 of a cartilaginous consistence, depressedly hemispherical, 

 something of the shape of the knee-pan in miniature, hori- 

 zontal, fixed side by side at their inner margins in a hori- 

 zontal direction to a membranous snbsagittately dilated pe- 

 dicle, which adheres to the front edge of the apex of the 

 column, flattish underneath, where within the edge of the 

 periphery of their <mter sides they are pierced for about half 

 their diameter obliquely with a compressed triangular punc- 

 ture which points towards their centre. Stigma placed in 

 front at the base and within the hollow of the column, 

 looking upwards, white, resembling two small studs or 

 bosses, opposite the foot of the label. 



a The two pollen-masses with their pedicle, remoT 

 of the anther, in the state they appear when they have 

 Golutan to apply themseires to the stigraa at the foot. 



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