324 ORCHIDE. 
penati ob pedicellos tortos. Sepal. Petalaque patentia demum 
erecte conniventia in illa lanceolata subacuta zqualia concava, 
hzc (petal. ovata, patentiora planiuscula. 
Labellum 3-lobum, lobis lateralibus oblongis truncatis as- 
cendentibus bruneo-lilacinis, centrale longe-unguiculato, ob- 
cordato porrecto ad basin unguis, tuberculz 2, connatæ lutes- 
centes rubro punctulata versus centrum, intus parce villosa, 
et ad basinexterne villosa margine ungius hic cuive subre- 
flexa, et denticulata. Columna pede subsimplice, obsolete 
czeterum arcuato marginato et versus apicem subulato uti 
petala et lilacina 
Anth. terminalis 4 immersa shaped like a jockeys cap, the 
cells are not ета downwards as іп the Mount Ophir spe- 
cies, S. plicata, or in Bletie ; but are nearly horizontal. 
Clinandrium: margo 3-dentata, dente terminal. multo 
majore obtuso. 
ostellum, a conspicuous ascending tooth, the stigmatic sur- 
face reaches to the very edge of the clinandrium, so that impreg- 
nanation can take place without the removal of the pollen, 
zestivation of the sepals valvate. 
The lower edge of the stigma is curved or thickened as it 
were, from being recurved. 
Has. Paludosis umbrosis insule Pulo Bissar. May. 1842. 
Khasyah mountains, Churra Ponjee: 1837, Itin. Notes р. р. 
28 and 31, nos. 429 and 493, Pl. CCCXI. A 
Oss. Fecundation is common, to all ee ЛЕ of development, 
from the bud to the fruit on each raceme. 
Pollinia 8, obovata compressa, anth. valde attenuata in cau- 
dicula pulverea, apicibus quaternate cohzerentia. 
Although the mature anther is only 2-celled, it is 8-celled 
when young, and for this reason alone I would not separate 
the genus eras Bletia, besides in the Mount Ophir one, the 
anther is essentially that of Bletia, and that Species cannot 
be separated from this. 
S.lilacina nob. Foliis (maximis) lanceolatis acuminatis, 
