cut off. At fig. 4, the anther, with its curious pouches, and 
the process between the cells of the anther, are shown. 
Fig. 2, represents a pollen mass and its gland. 
The general aspect of the plant is that of the Habenaria 
cucullata; but from all the calcarate genera it is as ob- 
viously as curiously distinguished, as Ophrys is from all 
those without spurs, by having two distinct pouches for the 
reception of the glands of the pollen masses instead of one. 
Root a simple, fleshy, fusiform tuber. Leaves 3, radi- 
cal, blueish, flat, elliptical at the base, stem-clasping, 
about five-nerved, horizontal, quite smooth. Scape erect, 
a span high, smooth, rounded, sheathed with scales, of 
which the lowest is leafy. Flowers spiked, small, herba- 
ceous, scarcely spiral, but directed all ways. Bracts ovate, 
acuminate, the length of ovary. Ovary twisted, with the 
angles opposite the outer sepals, ribbed. Sepals conniving 
into an helmet, ovate-elliptical, equal, the inner paler than 
the outer. Lip united with the base of the columna, 
3-parted, the intermediate segment lingulate, longer than 
the spur, hanging down; the side ones much longer, por- 
rect, variously bent, filiform ; the disk of the lip gibbous be- 
tween the recesses of the segments; the spur proceeding 
from the base of the lip, the length of the sepals, oval, in- 
flated, compressed, contracted at the neck. Anther short, 
terminal, ovate, erect, persistent, 2-celled, with separate 
cells. Gynizus a moist area below the anther, with its upper 
edge produced between the cells of the anther into an erect 
convolute process, nearly as long as anther, and extended 
downwards on each side into a little bag. Pollen masses 2, 
2-parted, granular, each with a short thread attached to the 
gland which lies in the little bags of the gynizus. A granu- 
lar tubercle is fixed on each side of the anther at its base. 
J. L. 
