APPENDIX. Iv 



its position. This plant is rare, and where it does grow is 

 not easily found, its whole appearance being that of charcoal, 

 among which it usually springs up. 



Besides these the Colony yields two curious new irritable 

 genera of the Arethusean division of this order ; both how- 

 ever small-flowered, and apparently dull-coloured. Of these 



Drakcea elastica^^^ has a single flower placed at the end of a 

 slender smooth erect scape, from twelve to eighteen inches 

 high, and its labellum, which is hammer-headed, and placed 

 on a long arm with a moveable elbow joint in the middle, is 

 stated by Mr. Drummond to resemble an insect suspended 

 in the air, and moving with every breeze. The other plant 



Fig. 4. 



Spiculcea ciliata. 



(263) Drak.ea. (Arethuseae), Sepala et petala linearia, conformia, reflexa. 

 Labelli unguis longissimus, medio articulatus ; lamina pcltata, convexa, cum 

 pede suo mobilis decidua. Columna elongata, clavata, semiteres, basi 



