bedded in a tuft of Asplenium cuneatum. The leaves were 
developed in January of the following year, and the flowers 
in March. The lip probably varies in the lobing, for the 
middle lobe is figured by Harvey as only trifid. 
Descr.—Leaves two, radical, equal, about two inches 
long, spreading and recurved, ovate, acute, glabrous, above — 
dull green and trabeculate with white nerves, beneath 
pale green with a stout costa. Scape four to five inches 
high, slender, pale red-brown, and with the ovaries softly 
laxly hairy. Spike three inches long, erect; flowers very 
many, half an inch long, rather crowded, subsecund, white, 
with a few red-purple streaks on the lip. Bracts as long as 
the ovary, lanceolate, all green, or tipped with red. 
Sepals erect, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, glabrous; 
lateral adnate to the base of the lip. Petals half as long 
again as the sepals, erect, ovate-lanceolate, caudate- 
acuminate, puberulous. Lip twice as long as the sepals, 
broad, decurved, puberulous; side-lobes small, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, recurved; midlobe quadrate, anterior 
margins three to five-toothed, with the mid-tooth longest ; 
spur shorter than the ovary, straight, slender. Column 
very small, low ; anthers horizontal, incurved.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front and 2 side view of the flower; 3, column and base of perianth ; 
4, pollinium :—Adél ealarged. 
