inferior in beauty, has as invariably solitary axillary flowers ; 
they are, moreover, distinctly two lipped, and have a curved 
clubshaped tube, instead of the equal limb and slender tube 
of what may as well retain for the present its former name of 
R. longiflora. In addition to which, each flower is concealed, 
before expansion, between two large flat valve-like bracts, 
which are applied to each other by their faces. 
It is apparently a different genus from R. longiflora ; 
but we dare not venture even to guess at its station in the 
midst of the present extreme confusion among Acanthads. 
For its cultivation, see fol. 13 of the present volume. 
