green, a little longer than the outer. Labellum longer than 
e petals, recurved, yellow-green, the sides incurved, three- 
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lobed, the lobes ovato-lanceolate ; at the base having a — 
short, deflexed horn. Column extremely short, scarcely 
any. Anthers broadly oval, with two membranous cells, 
their bases spreading, through which the red-brown glands 
of the clavate, granular pollen-masses are protruded. On 
each side of the avin anthers is a white, fleshy, clavate, 
abortive one, as long as the anther itself. 
Few species of Hanenaria are, perhaps, less known than 
the — it having been, so far as I am aware, only de- 
scribed, and as a native of Portugal, by Professor Lans ; till 
the Rey. Mr. Lowe, who found it on walls at “ Arco de 
Santo Gorge,” and on rocks at “ Entranza,” on the Southern 
_ shores of the island of Madeira, enabled me to give a figure 
_ of it in the Botanical Miscellany. But that figure, like too 
_ many others done from dried specimens, is inaccurate in 
_ seyeral particulars: and in none more so than in the reticu- 
: lation of the leaves (which only appears after the i- 
_ men is dried,) and in the shape of the labellum. These 
_ errors I have now the pleasure of being able to correct from 
ol. 
Ga den of Glasgow. These flowered feebly in 1831, and 
ga wie Bagalacy yap when our dre wring - made, The 
towers are highly fragrant, especially in the evening. 
Tb plants hase been bithato kerk in a pot of peat and 
loam in an airy part of the greenhouse. 
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Be of the Anther, with the ae- 
i won gr Psi pa 3. Front view of the same. 4. Labellum, 
plants, kindly sent by Mr. Lowe to the Botanic — 
