but a little smaller ; lip short, transversely oblong, very obtuse, 

 as long (including the orifice of the spur) as the petals, sac large 

 for the size of the flower and exceeding the limb, scrotiform, nude 

 within, nearly as long as the ovary ; column short, somewhat 

 hooded by the folding inward of the margin both at the top and 

 on the sides, the latter being free and truncate at base as if 

 winged ; anther large, somewhat square ; pollinia 2, pyriform, 

 with a single spathulate stipes ; ovary cylindrical, shortly 

 pedicellate. 



Described from several dried specimens, and also from some 

 flowering racemes freshly preserved in glycerine, kindly sent to 

 me by Mrs. J. E. Saunders of Natal. The flowers are white. 

 The figure of the whole plant in the plate is from a drawing by 

 the late Mr. John Sanderson of Natal ; the analyses are drawn 

 from my own dissection. Mrs. Saunders' specimens are much 

 smaller than those of Gueinzius and Meller, and only a dissection 

 of the flowers enabled me to feel assured that the latter simply 

 represent a more luxuriant growth. In habit and general 

 appearance this plant much resembles an Angrsecum from 

 Madagascar described by Lindley as Microcoelia exilis. It is even 

 more strikingly like A. Fasciola, Lindley, from Surinam, and 

 A. tenue, Lindley, from Para, — the latter of which has flowers 

 still smaller than those of this species, and all are amongst the 

 most minutely-flowered of known orchids. 



