Bulbs dark green, slightly glaucous, paler at the neck, 
shrouded at first by scales which wither away. Leaves fleshy, 
flat, without nerves, entire, marked with deeper spots that 
run into one another. Scape the length of the leaves, 
round, smooth, pale, green, furnished with a few scariose 
bractes. Raceme few-flowered, scattered. Flowers small, 
reversed, casqued, irregular. Petals nearly equal, converg- 
ing; outer linearly oblong, rounded at the end, the lower 
ones of which have their lower edge widened into a paler 
lobe; inner but little wider, pale pink, lapping at the 
edge, forming a vault over the column. Label dependent, 
flat, oblong, spurred, 3-parted, with smaller side-lobes 
veined with crimson and upright; the middle one notched 
at the end; disk bilamellated, crimson, reddish-yellow at 
the axis and top. Column detached, half the length of 
the label, smooth, flat in front, widened upwards. Anther 
terminal, lid-fashioned, half two-celled, with the cells dis- 
joined from each other, placed upon the slightly hollowed 
apex of the column, deciduous. Pollen-masses 2, entire. 
Stigma concave, transverse, viscid. Germen pedicled, 
twisted. 
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NOTE. s 
The following corrections should be made in the article MACRADENIA 
lutescens of the last fasciculus. 
Fol. 612. J. 9. pro “ Corolle petala" lege '* Petala.” 
J. 18. pro “ glandulam” lege “ proscollam." 
J. 20. pro “ proscolli" lege ** proscollæ.” 
1, 27. dele the words “ a corolla with the petals all distinct." And 
last line overleaf for “ proscollum" read “ proscolla." 
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In the article CANNA iridiflora, fol. 609 of the preceding fasciculus, line 
11. expunge the letters “ f. 1, fig. 2.” which were added by mistake in trans- 
cribing the synonym. 
