resupinate, ciliated all round the borders of the calyx, and 

 in the much shorter peduncles. It is rather a botanical 

 curiosity than a Florist's plant, and forms a striking con- 

 trast with the majority of Orchideous Epiphytes. 



Descr. Plants minute, tufted, growing among moss on 

 trunks of trees in their native regions. Stem about three- 

 quarters of an inch long, erect, clothed with sheathing 

 scales, slender ; bearing at its extremity an ovate, coriaceo- 

 membranaceous leaf, with a distinct narrow margin when 

 seen under the microscope, and, at the apex, three minute 

 teeth. Peduncles very short, aggregated, arising from the 

 base of the leaf, but much shorter than it, one or two- 

 flowered : the flowers minute, erect, of a full purplish 

 blood-colour, except at the back about the insertion of the 

 ovary. Sepals ovate, acute, ciliated, the two lateral 

 (upper ones in the position of the flower) united half-way 

 up from the base. Petals two, small, red-rose, applied to 

 the sides of the little column aud concealing them, ovate, 

 downy. Lip of a singular form : three-lobed, very deep 

 blood-colour : the side lobes forming two large, oblong, 

 spreading wings on each side the column and petals, 

 ciliated : intermediate one small, three-lobed, pressed to 

 the front of the column. Pollen-masses two, club-shaped. 



Fig. 1. Single Plant. 2. Front, and 3, Back view of a Flower. 

 4. Column with Petals and middle lobe of the Lip. 5. Pollen-masses : — 

 magnified. 



