duction of the artist’s drawing, which is (as with all the 
original drawings published in the Botanical Magazine) 
preserved in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens for 
verification of the published plates. The true colour is a 
pale primrose. : 
Descr.—Whole plant sixteen inches high, quite glabrous, 
except the spike. Leaves four to ten inches long by one 
to one and a half broad, erect, elliptic-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, many-nerved. Spike shortly peduncled, four to SIX 
inches long in flower; rachis, bracts, and flowers hispidly 
pubescent; bracts green, ovate-lanceolate, about as long 
as the very shortly pedicelled flowers. Ovary trigonous, 
produced into a very short neck. Perianth deflexed, one- 
third of an inch long, ovoid, white; sepals boat-shaped, 
pubescent dorsally convex, with a short infra-apical beak ; 
petals lke the sepals, but glabrous, -with a stout dorsal, 
hispidulous_ keel, produced into a short, blunt spur. 
Anthers short, broad. Stigma obscurely 3-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bract and flower; 2, petal viewed from within, and 3 from 
without ; 4, column; 5, anther :—A/l enlarged, 
