A glabrous herb 18-60 cm. high ; stem erect terete, the base 

 enclosed in a long acute sheath ; leaves 3, cauline remote Imear- 

 lanceolate acute 3-nerved, the lowest 10-13 cm. long, the upper 

 gradually smaller ; raceme very short subcapitate ovate or hemi- 

 spherical, 8-12-fl., 1*8-3 cm. long, bracts leaflike lanceolate, 

 shorter than the ovary ; side sepals lanceolate acute, 6 mill, long ; 

 odd sepal (with the petals) galeate funnel-shaped, tapering 

 upwards, obtuse, free at the apex and often recurved, as long as 

 the side sepals, produced at base into a filiform spur about half 

 the length of the ovary ; petals somewhat ovate, as long as the 

 mouth of the galea, front margin waved and crisped, a rounded 

 lobe near the base ; lower part of the lip a half-ring closely 

 clasping the base of the stigma, lamina free linear erect, about 

 1 mill, long ; arms of the rostellum elongate parallel approximate. 



Described from several dried specimens, and a raceme of each 

 preserved in spirit. Mr. Galpin notes the flowers as " white, the 

 petals purple spotted." The species is distinct by its petals and 

 its very short raceme. The variety major looks at first sight 

 different, but there are too many points of identity to justify 

 specific distinction. In examining flowers of the latter, the 

 glands seemed to be covered with a sort of indusium of nearly 

 the same size and shape as the gland itself, and quite separable 

 from it. These may have been produced by the action of the 

 spirit on the viscid matter of the gland, and need further 

 examination in the living plant. 



