stigma ; 5, 6, 7, column, front, side and back views — variously 

 magnified — st, stigmatiferous lobe of the column ; s, stigma ; 

 r, rostellum ; a, anther. 



An erect glabrous herb, 8-30 cm. high ; stem straight leafy ; 

 leaves spreading or ascending, sheathing at base, cordate-ovate 

 acute, the margins reflexed undulate, the lower ones 1-5-4 cm. 

 long, the upper ones gradually smaller ; spike cylindrical, densely 

 many-flowered, flowers white ; bracts ascending leaf-like ovate 

 acuminate, exceeding the flowers ; lateral sepals spreading- 

 deflexed subfalcate, broadly elliptical obtuse, 0'2-0*4 cm. long ; 

 odd sepal a little shorter, ovate-oblong ; petals connate with the 

 sepals at base, revolute ovate-oblong obtuse, as long as the odd 

 sepal ; lip erect galeate, the mouth broader than long, depressed 

 at the apex, obtuse, the sacs very short, obtuse ; stipe of the 

 column abbreviated ; rostellum short, hiding the stigma, the 

 intermediate lobe obtuse ; anther slightly ascending, its apex 

 turned to the front of the flower, the glands posterior and distant ; 

 stigmatiferous lobe semi-orbicular, deeply bifid ; ovary elliptical, 

 the ribs muricate, 0"8-0-4 cm. long. 



Var. B. ocellatum. — Upper bracts shorter than the flowers ; 

 deflexed point of the galea very long, reaching nearly to the base, 

 and forming two circular entrances to the flower. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. The plants 

 from which the drawings were made were collected on the 

 Peninsula {Bolus, 4554). 



In the structure of the column this species diff"ers from any 

 other known to me. The anther, instead of hanging vertically 

 under the rostellum with its glands pointing forward, as is the 

 typical structure in the genus, appears as if pushed up against the 

 apex of the column, so as to be nearly horizontal, with the glands 

 turned to the back of the flower, and the stigma completely 

 covered and hidden from view. 



