74 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Labellum anticum porrectum, basi metnbranaceum saccatum 

 minute bicallosum columnae faciei accretum, medio constric- 

 tum apice carnosum dilatatum. Colunma brevissima; cli- 

 nandrio (magno) membranaceo antheram involvente. An- 

 thera terminalis opercularis persistens, prona menibranacea 

 biiocularis ; locubs approximatis incomplete bilocellatis. 

 Pollinia 2 bipartibilia (vel si mavis 4 per paria connexa) e 

 massulis angulatis cereaceis (nee pulvereis) innumeris, elastice 

 cohaerentibus conflata, caudiculae cpathulatse infra apicem 

 affixa. Glandula ovata incurvata. Rosiellum elongatum 

 bifidum, supra labelli saccutn horizontaliter extensum covnii- 

 bus acuminatis. Capsula ovato-globosa, costis angustatis. 

 Semina exilissima. — Herba pusilla lerrestris 3 —4) pollicaris. 

 Radix succulento-Jibrosa. Caulis erectus, basi foliorum delap- 

 sorum vestigiis annulatus. Folia lineari-lanceolata acuminata 

 coriacea adpressa margine rejlexay subtus carinata, colore fusco- 

 cinereo. Flores dense spicati; (spica triseriatim spirali) albidi 

 vix roseo tincti, labellum luteum carnosum. {Bractece ovato- 

 acuminatcB Jlares superantes). In regard to the female appa- 

 ratus, the gjnizus appears to be made up of two stigmata, 

 the confluence of their tissue being in the axis of the fork of 

 the rosiellum, indicated by a white line running through the 

 middle of the floor of the clinandrium to the base of the fork 

 along the axis of the caudicula. The stigmatic patches to 

 wliich the pollen-grains get somehow applied, are placed at 

 the sides of the column nsar the apex. — Your Apaturia has 

 the roots, " tubera irregulariter nodoso-incrassata repentia." 

 I may add the characters of a new neottieous genus which I 

 have named Cordylestilis. (Fal.). — Perianthium globoso-con- 

 nivens (clausum). Sepala libera aequalia, supremo cum peta- 

 lis subeequalibus in galeam adglutinato. Labellum sessile 

 erectum concavo-ventricosum cum columnae basi connatum 

 indivisum, apice incrassato-bituoerculatum revolutpm, sacco 

 intus fimbriliigerum. Columna brev[s incrassata basi con- 

 stricta. Anthera dorsalis, uiobilis clinandrio cavo niarginato 

 semi-immersa, rostello erecto bifido incumbens, biiocularis 

 locuiis longitudinaliter bilocellatis. Pollinia 4 (pulverea) 



