tinctly two-celled, we rather believe that the contraction, 
in the same year, of its interior thin valves in drying, may 
have deceived us. 
Our drawing was made in July 1824, at the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, where the plant had been received, by 
means of Mr. John Damper Parks, from China. It is a 
delicate stove plant, requiring the cultivation applicable to 
similar subjects. 
Stem creeping, scaly, branched. Bulbs oval, smooth, 
solitaiy, two-leaved, at the base sheathed by two scales. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at the base, 5-nerved, 
smooth, spreading. Flowers solitary, terminal, with a short 
stalk, clothed with many scales. Divisions of the flower; 
exterior ovate-lanceolate, distinct, smooth ; the lateral ones 
being placed under the lip ; interior slender, linear, one- 
nerved, hip distinct, hooded, jointed with the column, 
2-crested, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes erect, minutely ciliated, 
the middle one blunt, fringed, from the wests to the sides 
of a brown colour. Column distinct, erect, obovate, winged, 
the gynizus hollowed out, 2-lipped : the lower lip lunate, 
the upper large, porrect, broad, at length incumbent upon 
the lower. Anther inserted below the end of the column, 
2-celled : cells 2-valved, complete ; in its front edge tooth- 
letted. Pollen masses 4, not lying side by side, but anterior 
and posterior; those behind being smaller than those in 
front ; at their base powdeiy, and not glutinous or glan- 
dular. 
J. L. 
