high, usually with a simple stem. Leaves barely a span long, 
distichous, very thick, ligulate, with the edges nearly parallel,’ 
carinate beneath, channelled above, truncated and irregularly 
toothed at the apex. Flowers of a deep rose-colour, growing 
in erect, oblong, axillary racemes, which are much shorter 
than the leaves. Flower-stalks and ovary together about an 
inch long. Sepals and petals nearly equal, ovate, spread out 
flat and beautifully veined. Lép linear, falcate, twice as short 
as the sepals, channelled, acute, rather turned upwards at the 
point, with a compressed, straight, slender spur, nearly as 
long as the flower-stalk ; at the base of the lip are two teeth 
pressed close to the base of the column, and parallel with it. 
Column short, with a small hollowed stigma in front.—2J. B. 
Fig. 1. Side view of flower :—imagnified. 
