anticts (tubo modici torto, lateralis, et lateralis turn anttci fiunt et j)o$- 

 tici) 9 inter lacinias lateralis exteriorutn 9 concavB, cucullataf testivationc 

 styli partem liberam cum stigmale involventi, intra marginem lateralium* 

 quasi serie alterd, inserta, hinc denti auriculiformi (stamen sterile labello 

 connatum) paulo suprh Jaucem tubi marginata, inde filamento connatd v* 

 liber*}, turn utroque margine auriculata; stamen lacinia postica serici cx- 

 terioris insertum; filam. tenue y lanceolatttm* diaphanum* ereclum 9 styli 

 longitudwe* labelli margine altero hinc connatum v* liberum, margine anthe* 

 fijero mulio crassiore et paululum labellum versus torto; antln paulo infrh 

 apicem dextram filamenti adnata* elliptica, astivatione ad styli apicem ap- 

 pressa et ante labelli expansionem pollinem album sphwricum carnosum mutuii 

 presstone $ap$ subangulatum emittens t unzlocularis, septa longitudinals in 

 loculos binos paraUelos semidivisa* Germ, injerum 3-/oc./ loculamenta ovulo 

 unicoerecto; stylus Jlifor mis , impubis > Jaucem usque cum tubo ante jxlamen* 

 turn accrelus, supra Jaucem liberus* valde incrassatus, paulo coMpresstts* 

 glaberrimus, albiaus, transversus, apice obliquft horizontaii; stigma termi- 

 nal*) infundibuliformey obliquum 9 margine incra&satum, cestivatione compres* 

 sum 9 posted apertum> ah antherd reversntn: plerumque pollen in humero styli 

 stigmati proxtmo dimiltitur ; . bis autem in tps& stigmatis cavitate observavi. 

 Anthesia bjasciculis posticis (axi communi proximis) spicce injimae incipit f et 

 ordine simui sursunt pergit } Jasciculorttm postkorumjloribus emarcidis, ante- 

 riorei reandem normam sequuntur* Lindley- MSS* 



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Introduced from the Brazils in 1815. We have no doubt that the dif- 

 ferences between the species previously combined under Ma ft ant a and the 

 present, will suggest to some botanist, who may feel himself sufficiently 

 versed in the study of the natural tribe to which our plant belongs the 

 propriety of detaching it under a new generic denomination. In the 

 mean time we present our readers with a most ingenious and elaborate 

 description by Mr. Li rid ley, junior, of Cat ton, near Norwich. 



The drawing was taken from a fine specimen which flowered in the hot- 

 house of Mf. Kent, at Clapton; to which a very liberal access is afforded 

 for the purposes of science. 



A perennial herbaceous plant, with a tuberous root. Leaves radical, 

 quadrifarious, disposed in fascicles, the outer ones (those which were 

 first produced) twice as short as the interior and supported by two 

 leafless footstalks ;; footstalks 2-3 feet long, erect, channelled, equitant at 

 the base, three times narrower at the upper extremity than at the lower, 

 bngUt green with a paler margin; lamina of the largest leaves separated 

 irom the footstalk by a cylindrical greenish purple joint from i an inch 



ntat 

 »na a uttie oent downwards, elliptical, undulated, "obtuse, a little curled at 

 the margin towards the base which is dilated on each side of the footstalk ; 

 the upper side velvety, dark green, banded with parallel, obliquely trans- 

 verse, equidistant, broad stripes, alternately interrupted across the 

 middle, much paler than the rest of the leaf and confluent at the margin 

 and rib, traversed in the direction of the bands by numerous, very 

 narrow, stmple, close*set, pale veins; the under side silky, purple, whole- 

 coloured, a little paler towards the edge. Scape cylindrical, smooth, 

 naked, of the thickness of a finger at the base, arising from the axillae of 



