peduncle four to five inches long, sheathed with remarkably 
compressed ancipitate scales. Flowers forming a loose 
head, or an imperfect umbel, of a brownish green colour, 
particularly the two inner, which are rather smaller, and 
somewhat spathulate; thethree outer more oval. zp, with 
its claw united by its upper surface to the whole length of the _ 
underside of the column, the lamina spreading, greenish, 
somewhat three-lobed, the middle lobe notched and some- 
one pair of pollen masses. 
last: * be by the Rev. L. Guiipine ; and this year, im the 
mont 
between E. fuscatum and anceps. 
Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Front view of the Column and Lip. 3. Uppermost 
and large Anther. 4. Its Pollen Masses. 5. 5. The lower and smaller An- 
thers. 6. One seen from its under side. 7. Its Pollen Masses —More or 
less magnified. ) 
