Swartz states the flowers to be red (sanguinei), but he pro- 
bably made his descriptions from the dried state of the 
plant, when they certainly have a reddish tinge: but in the 
several recent specimens we have seen, the blossoms have 
been invariably of the colour here represented. Our figure 
was taken in November 1837, from plants, sent to J. AL- 
carb, Esq. from St. Michael’s Mount, Jamaica: and it was 
flowering also at the same time in the stoves of the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, the specimens having been transmitted to 
Mr. Murray, by Mr. Niven, Overseer of White River 
Estates, who sent it with Brovecuronia sanguinea and other 
rarities from the same island. : 
Descr. Stem five to six inches long, flexuose and more 
or less reclined, compressed, leafy. Leaves eight to ten, 
distichous, broadly oblong, spreading, coriaceous, dark 
green, obtuse, sheathing at the base. Panicle terminal, six 
or eight inches to a foot long, branched from the base, 
branches and branchlets spreading, slender. Flowers small, 
of a uniform pale yellow-green colour. Sepals narrow, 
lanceolate, and, as well as the almost subulate or setaceous 
petals, spreading. Lip cordate, acuminate, waved, with two 
callous, raised hairs at the base, the claw completely united 
with the column. This latter is triangular. Anther-case 
hemispherical, having two small cells, in which lie the 
Eee Pay pollen-masses, which are connected by a small 
gland. 
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Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Underside of Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses:— 
magnified. . 
