rows. Our plants, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, for 
which we are indebted to Mr. Loppices, blossomed in Sep- 
tember ; but the flowers are of very short duration. 
Descr. Bulbs ovate, clustered, clothed with two or three 
large, sheathing, membranaceous scales, bearing at the 
summit, two, rarely one, broadly -lanceolate, nerved leaf: 
Raceme six to eight inches long, arising from the base of 
the bulbs, and pendent. Germen long, cylindrical, decurvy- 
ed, at first arranged in three rows, tapering a little below 
- into a footstalk. Sepals three, oblongo-ovate, the two side 
ones spreading, their margins reflexed ; the upper one hel- 
met-shaped and carinated, all of them pale brownish-yellow, 
inclining to green. Petals small, oblongo-falcate, truncate _ 
at the apex, the angles tooth-like. Lip articulated on the — 
base of the column, oblong, yellow-brown, the two large 
side lobes inflexed, the extreme one saceate. Column green- 
ish-yellow, spotted, somewhat winged at the margin : above 
the stigma is a long beak (rostellum ), which receives the 
gland of the pollen-mass. _Anther-case hemispheerical. 
Pollen-masses double, oblong, compressed, cleft at the 
margin above on one side: gland very long, subulate. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ditto, from which 
th 1 d 2 
Pollen-mass. 4. Lip— Magnified. e Sepals have been remove 
