as well as the ovary, red, with minute green dracteoles at the 
base. Sepals very unequal: superior one small, ovate, concave, 
very much and narrowly acuminated, fringed with long glandular 
hairs ; /ateral sepals an inch long, linear-oblong, shortly acumi- 
nate, projecting forward, and having a peculiar twist at the base 
which brings the outsides of these two sepals on the same plane, 
their inner edges meeting together like the elytra or wing-cases 
of some insect of the Buprestis kind, and which gives a very 
peculiar appearance to the flowers. Peta/s rather smaller than 
the superior sepal, but otherwise exactly resembling it, and 
fringed in like manner with glandular hairs. vp small in pro- 
portion to the size of the flower, thick, fleshy, tongue-shaped, ob- 
tuse, having two erect plates or ridges on the disc, bent down in 
the upper half, the base articulated on the decurrent base of the 
column, which has there a peculiar upward curvature. Column 
short and thick, the sides projecting in the form’ of wings. An- 
ther-case a little sunk into the top of the column. Podl/en-masses 
in two oval pairs. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and lip. 3. Flower from which the upper sepal 
and about three-fourths of the lateral sepals are cut away. 4. Pollen-masses :-— 
all more or less magnified. 
