are indebted for the drawing from which our figure and 
magnified dissections are copied) to make a sketch of this 
rare plant—an inhabitant (with the Cernaxorus) of swampy 
grounds on the immediate shores of King George’s Sound, 
where it was originally discovered by Mr. Brown in 1801. 
After flowering, the plant died altogether at Kew, and has 
not since, we believe, been reintroduced to any of our col- 
lections.’”’ Allan Cunningham. 
Descr. Whole plant, in general aspect, very much re- 
sembling the M. parviflora represented in our last plate, 
but more than twice the size. The flowers too are ex- 
tremely similar, and the chief difference is to be found in 
the lip, which is here larger in proportion to the rest of 
the flower, and it is singularly wedge-shaped, truncated, 
and obtuse, even retuse at the extremity :—the disk being 
moreover furnished with two oblong, warty callosities, and 
the margin of the lower half and apex, with several glo- 
bose, tuberculated processes. 
Fig. 1. Front, and fig. 2, a side view of the expanded Flower magnified 
ight times in diameter. 3. A front, and 4, a side view of the parts of Fruc- 
tification and Labellum of the same Flower: magnified sixteen times in 
diameter. 5. Front and side view of the Pollen masses : magnified sixteen 
times in diameter. 6. Pollen grains of the same: magnified two hundred 
times in diameter. 7. A transverse section of the Ovarium: magnified 
eight times in diameter. 
