former varicosely permanent at the under surface of the 

 foliage. Scape round, very slender, many-flowered, three 

 times the length of the leaves : as the flowers drop knobbed 

 with the remains of the bractes. Flowers disposed in a 

 scattered spike, subtended by lanceolate taper-pointed de- 

 ciduous bracies, twice shorter than the germen, of a yel- 

 lowish green colour, paler on the inside and slightly suf- 

 fused with red. Petals of the corolla spreading, ovate,, 

 pointed, inner a little smaller. Label pendulous, fiinnel- 

 foi-m ; spur clubbed at the top, the middle lobe nearly 

 oblitei'ated and its place supplied by a sort of fringe. Co- 

 lumn detached, flat in front, slightly ciliate at the edge,, 

 ovate, ending at the front in an elongated rostel or beaklike 

 appendage. Secreting surface of the stigma (gyniztts) a 

 transversa hollow. Anther terminal, lid-shaped, deciduous, 

 of one cell, with a projecting apex beneath, covering by its 

 beaklike point the gland of the pollen-masses, elongated at 

 the back near the fringe or joint by which it is connected 

 with the column, where it is also purplish. Pollen-masses 2, 

 divided into two lobes for half their length at the back» 

 held together by a filiform glandular corpuscle. 



