which is covered with hairs similar to those on the scape. 
Pedicels hairy, half the length of the primary bractez, and 
having secondary lateral bracteze. Calyx bi- or tri-partite ; 
tube very hairy, having both pointed hairs and others which 
are shorter and glandular ; segments connivent, blunt, hav- 
ing glandular hairs only, the two outer the largest and 
broadest. Corolla purplish rose-coloured, yellow in the 
throat, covered as well as the calyx on the outside with 
glandular pubescence, the four larger segments nearly 
ual, spreading, flat, channelled in the centre, and slightly 
_crisped on the edges, the two next the labellum rather the 
narrowest, and each having one erect, ovate, entire tooth 
at its base, of similar colour with the rest of the corolla, 
the two others green at their base on the outside, and fur- 
rowed in the throat, the groove with prominent, erect, pu- 
bescent edges; labellum deflected from the inside of the 
calyx between the lips, small, ovate, acute, yellow, with a 
purple, crisped, and crenate edge, its appendices blunt, 
spreading, and much shorter than itself; tube pale yellow, 
twisted, equal to the longest segments of the calyx, the 
whole of the inside and the upper surface of the limb pre- 
senting, under the microscope, a beautiful crystalline ap- 
pearance. Column linear, flat, equal in length to the limb, 
dark red in front, yellow behind, glabrous, very irritable, 
bordered at its lower part. Anthers leaden-coloured, pollen- 
granules lilac, minute, ovate. Stigma of a dull green colour, 
oblong, glandular, surface crystalline. Germen ovate, bi- 
locular, dissepiment imperfect above. Ovules very numer- 
ous, attached to a central receptacle, in the lower part of 
the dissepiment wanting. 
This species has newly come into cultivation, and its 
flowers are larger than any in our gardens. I owe to the late 
Mr. Fraser, Colonial Botanist, a native specimen collected 
at King George’s Sound, on the south coast of New Hol- 
land ; and from seed taken off one that was sent at the same 
time to Mr. Macnag, the plant here described was raised. It 
blossomed in the greenhouse of the Royal Botanic Garden 
in May, and will continue to bear flowers during the early 
part of June. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Back view of ditto.— Magnified. 
