which spread in two opposite directions; these are of a dark, 
full-green colour, and unequally notched at the apex. Scape 
springing from the base of the short stem and from the axil 
formed by the persistent base of a fallen leaf, dark purplish- 
black, terete, slightly thickened upwards, bearing a few, remote, 
small, appressed dracts ; this scape is about a foot long, and is 
terminated by a spike or raceme of twelve or fourteen fleshy 
flowers, the largest of them not an inch and a half in their 
broadest diameter. Buds ovate, greenish-yellow, with a red line 
at the suture of the sepals. Sepa/s and petals patent, nearly uni- 
form in size and shape, subovate, obtuse, and in colour white, 
tinged with pink in the centre. zp rose-colour, scarcely larger 
than the sepals, spreading, three-lobed: lateral lobes small, lu- 
nate; middle one exactly ovate; at its base is a downy, fleshy, 
prominent, furrowed gland. Pollen-masses two, attached to a 
long caudicle, with a gland at its base. 
Fig. 1. Side view of column and lip. 2. Front view of lip. 3. Pollen- 
masses :—magnified, 
