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too, being in two difterent colours) I thought it was a very hand- 

 some plant. On examining the flowers, I found that they were dif- 

 ferently formed. The terminal flowers were, in colour and form, 

 normal and perfect in all their parts (see fig. 2). The darker- 

 coloured flowers (being, as I said, when present, always the lowest 

 on the stem) were all im]}erfect. The column was much thickened, 

 both dorsally and laterally, and less curved. There was no anther, 

 and there were no pollinia; but the upper edges of the colvimu 

 were turned over as represented in fig. 1 ; and underneath these 

 edges was seen a small (Quantity of a yellow waxy substance in an 

 amorphous slate, being all that existed to represent the pollinia. 

 I must mention that on many stems there were flowers (always, 

 be it remarked, intermediate on the stem) of an intermediate 

 character, with no anther^ having the column only a little smaller ; 

 and u\ those were found perfect pollinia, but no triangular gland. 



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