three-partite, green, ¢labrous,adpressed, segments elliptical, 
with paler edges, ciliated. Corolla (about ten lines across,) | 
monopetalous; tube epigynous, nearly colourless, twice 
the length of the calyx ; limb five-partite ; labellum pale, 
reflected, ovate, acute, fringed with glandular hairs, au- 
ricled, auricles spreading, very slender, subulato-filiform, 
rose-coloured, twice the length of the labellum, with a few 
glandular hairs near the bases, under a high magnifying 
power appearing rough and serrulate; other segments of 
the corolla lilac and imbricated in the bud, afterwards rose- 
coloured, paler below, darker in the throat, spreading oF 
slightly reflected, obovate, sparingly ciliated, crenate al 
the apex, the two next the labellum crowned with an erect, 
generally emarginate subspathulate scale, the two others 
naked. Column terminal, reflected over the labellum, and 
irritable, flat, white at its base, lilac in the middle, yellow 
towards its extremity, and there especially, but slightly also 
on its upper surface, glanduloso-pubescent. Anthers, after 
bursting, brownish-yellow, surrounded by a tuft of shining; 
transparent, at length yellow pubescence, bilobular, lobes” 
divaricating, elliptical, pointed at the lower extremity, — 
bursting along the front. Stigma in the centre betweel | 
the anthers, green, at first hidden and small, but afterwards © 
much enlarged, capitate and raised upon a conical neck, — 
pubescent. Germen green, becoming reddish-brown when | 
ripe, ovate, glabrous, unilocular ; ovules placed on a roun 
central receptacle, having the mere rudiments of a dissepl 
ment at its base. 
This very pretty species of a singular and interesting — 
genus was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from 
seeds communicated by the late Lord Bianryre ; a noble- 
man, whose melancholy death, in a period of undistinguish- 
ing popular tumult, was deplored far beyond the wide- 
spread circle which includes those who had a persona 
knowledge of his many virtues. They had been receive” 
by his Lordship from Colonel Linpsey, to whom, and t 
>. 
. Fraser, I owe the possession of excellent specimen® 
collected at King George’s Sound. The flowers wet 
slowly developed in the greenhouse, and in successio? 
during the whole month of November. Graham. 
The drawing from which our plate is engraved, W 
obligingly made by Dr. Grevitte. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Back view jum, 
— ; - 2. of the same. 3. Colum” 
with the Anthers in a young and unexpanded state. 4. Column, with oe 
= Anthers burst :—all magnified. 
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