we have recently been obligingly supplied by Mr. John 
Lee, in whose possession the original plant still remains. 
The immediate affinity of this genus is undoubtedly 
with Arethusa and its allies, with which it agrees essen¬ 
tially in the structure of its columna and pollen-masses; 
but from which it differs remarkably in habit, which is 
quite unlike that of any species previously known as 
belonging to Arethuseae. It may be considered a con¬ 
necting link between Arethusece and Epidendrece. 
A stemless, terrestrial, or perhaps epiphytous plant, 
with radical, erect, fleshy leaves, which are oblong-lanceo¬ 
late, obliquely twisted, flat, veinless, with an oblique 
hooked end, sheathing at the base. Flower yellow, solitary, 
radical, sheathed with one oblong bractea, nearly sessile 
at the base of the leaves, scarcely elevated above the soil. 
Sepals fleshy, conniving, oblong, concave, nearly equal; 
the outer green, with a little point at the end; the inner 
shorter and thinner. Labellum placed in front, separate, 
entire, ovate, acute, of nearly the same form as the sepals, 
with the disk callous in the middle, supported by the 
anterior outer sepals. Columna half-round, clavate, trun¬ 
cate, winged on each side at the end; stigma hollowed 
out, oblong, nearly square; clinandrium small, with an 
obsolete rostellum. Anther terminal, opercular, deciduous, 
fleshy, covered over with little warts, hemispherical, one- 
celled; with two incomplete dissepiments. Pollen-masses 
two, or rather perhaps four, cohering in pairs, linear, 
thicker at one end than the other, formed of many minute 
angular granules, adhering to an elastic thread passing 
through their axis. 
J. L. 
