the leafless stalks, than which it is a little longer* Spike compound, ter- 

 minal, ovate, compact, the size of a duck's egg: common bract** indefinite 

 in number, closely imbricated equitant: the exterior largest, roundish, 

 narrowed towards the base or wedge-shaped, covered with dense incon- 

 spicuous hairs, coriaceous, traversed by close-set veins radiating ft ora th6 

 base to the margin; interior ovate or elliptical, purplish, furnished whh 

 parallel longitudinal veins becoming confluent at the tip, which is pubes- 

 cent especially on the outside, gradually narrowing and paler, separating 

 the flowers into 2 parcels, each of which is 2 or 3 flowered, and anterior 

 and posterior with respect to the common axis of inflorescence; partial 

 bractcce^ 3, linear-lanceolate, palish purple, one interior and separate, 

 2 exterior of each of which one edge becomes confluent with that of the 

 bracteie of the nearest flower, so as to form a partition completely 

 separating each flower from its neighbour. Perianthium superior, double, 

 an inch long: outer [formed of three brae tea? connate with the gerraen?) 

 divided to its base into 3 obtuse linear-lanceolate equal naked segments 

 with edges approximated and a little curved inwards so as to resemble a 

 tube as long as the inner perianthium; mner with a slender tube twice as 

 long as its segments, gradually attenuated towards its upper end when the 

 function of the limb has ceased, traversed in the inside by 2, elevated, hairy 

 lines running from its very bottom almost as far as the top of the auricles 

 of the labellum to which they are opposite; limb double with a convolutive 

 aestivation: outer 3- parted with linear lanceolate obtuse rather irregular 

 segments, of which 2 are lateral and the other posterior with respect 

 to the partial axis of inflorescence (of the fascicles); interior 3-parted: 

 segments united a little above those of the outer limb: two lateral, pos- 

 terior, obovate, extended at the base of their front edge a little beyond that 

 of the labellum, shorter than the outer segments with which they alter- 

 nate: one (labellum) anterior (by a slight twist of the tube appearing lateral, 

 and then the 2 lateral divisions become anterior and posterior,) between 

 the lateral lacunae of the outer limb, concave, hoodshaped?, in estivation 

 involving the free part of the style and stigma, inserted within the margin 

 of the lateral segments as if in a different series, on one side having a 

 rounded denticulation (or sterile stamen connate with the labellum J a 

 little above the orifice of the tube, on the other side united to the nla- 

 ment or separate and then furnished with an auricle or* T>oth side** &te*ien 

 inserted into the posterior segment of the outer series :Jil49rt*xt thin, 

 lanceolate, diaphanous, erect, the length of the style, either united on 

 one side to the margin of the labellum or distinct from it, that tide which 

 supports the anther being much thicker than the other and somewhat 

 twisted towards the labellum; anther affixed a little below the right hand 

 side of the apex of the filament, elliptical, in Aestivation pressed against 

 the top of the style and shedding the pollen before the expansion of the 

 labellum, one-celled, half-divided by a longitudinal partition into two 

 parallel cells: pollen white, spherical, fleshy, often angular by mutual 

 pressure of the particles* Germen inferior 3-celled; cells with one erect 

 ovulum; style filiform, naked, united with the tube, as far as its orifice, 

 in front of the filament, beyond the orifice disengaged, much thickened, 

 very smooth, whitish, somewhat compressed, transverse, with an oblique 

 horizontal summit; stigma terminal, funnel-shaped, oblique, thickened at 

 the margin, during aestivation compressed, afterwards open and turned 

 away from the anther; it usually happens that the pollen is dropped on 

 the shoulder of the style nearest the stigma; but w£ have twice observed 

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