tuse, waved, the upper ones again smaller, lanceolate, acute, 
with short sheaths, and gradually passing upwards into the 
bractee, all of them faintly striated, of a beautiful yellow 
green. Bractee lanceolato-acuminate, carinate and con- 
cave, longer than the germen. Flowers in a lax spike, 
pale greenish-white : the three outer petals or segments of 
the perianth ovate, greener than the rest of the flower, the 
upper concave, three-nerved, erect, and covering the anther ; 
the two lateral reflexed : éwo innermost ones bipartite, the 
lacinie unequal, divaricate ; upper one linear-lanceolate, 
falcate, appressed to the inner margin of the upper and 
outer petal ; the lower laciniz setaceous, nearly two inches 
long, incurved. Jap deeply tripartite, lateral laciniz 
spreading, setaceous, incurved, more than two inches long, 
the intermediate one an inch long, linear, retuse, project- 
ing, having two flat, fleshy tubercles at the base above, 
while, below, depends a filiform, or slightly compressed 
spur, four to five inches long. Anther bifid, with the cells 
remote, projecting below into two horizontal, fleshy, spur- 
like processes, along the upper margin of which the mem- 
branous cell is continued which contains the stalk of the 
pollen-mass, and at the extremity of which is the naked, 
white gland. The two glands at the base of the anther are 
a continuation of the substance of the anthers: and at the - 
back of each of the-spurs of the anthers, and at their base, 
are two short, fleshy, white, processes, glandular at the ex- 
tremity, and which may be considered two lateral, abortive 
anthers. Pollen Masses yellow, clavate ; stalk long, its 
land white. Germen much shorter than the spur, cylin- 
rical, twisted. oe 
Cultivated in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from 
roots, sent by Dr. Disran, from Jamaica. It flowered in Sep- 
tember of the present year, 1829. It may surely be reckoned 
among-the most curious of the terrestrial Orchideous plants, and 
is rendered very striking by the great length of the spur, and the 
long, setaceous lacinie of the lip and inner petals. I have lately 
received beautiful specimens from my valued friend and cor- 
respondent, Dr. Bancrort, of Jamaica. 
_ Singular as is the present species in the magnitude of its spur, 
it is still far inferior to one which I have received, though not in 
a living state, from my often-mentioned friend, C. S. PARKER, 
Esq., who gathered it in Demerara. The representation of this 
I destine for a future number of our Magazine. 
Tas. 2947. A. Hapenaria macroceras re i art of 
— : presenting the upper P 
the Plant, nat. size. Fig. 1. Inner Petal. 2. Anther, Stigma, and Lip. »: 
Side view of an Anther, with the projecting Bases to the Cells, the two fleshy 
Glands, and abortive side Anthers. 4. Pollen Mass. 5. Lower Leaf.—Fis- 
I to 4 more or less magnified. 
