erect or inclined, entirely clothed with large, membranaceous, 
concave, sheathing, pale-green dracts, terminated with a brac- 
teated capitulum, or short, rounded, many-flowered spike, its 
bracteas \inear-lanceolate acuminate. Flowers sessile, small, 
white or cream-colour, faintly spotted with fulvous-yellow or 
buff-colour. Sepals from a rather broad ovato-lanceolate base, 
tapering, the superior sepal into a comparatively short acumen : 
the two /ateral into hair-like pendent apices, four to five inches 
long. Petals small, from a broad base subulate, longer than 
the column. yp shorter than the petals, pressed to the base of 
the column. Column with two subulate, erect points, nearly as 
long as the petals, between which the anther-case is lodged. 
Fig. 1. Flower (from which the long hair-like points are cut away for want of 
space to represent them in). 2. Flower, with the sepals removed. 3. Label- 
lum :—magnified. 
