ORCHIDACE^ 87 



ovarium amplectente suffulti. Perigonii phylla subcarnosa, 

 erecta, oblonga, acuta, leviter carinata ; exteriora ima brevissime 

 connata, ex quibus anteriora basi sua oblique ad unguem gyno- 

 stemii decurrunt j duo interiora exteriore postico minora. Lahel- 

 lum phyllis perigonii longius et crassius, ascendens, spathulato- 

 oblongum, concavum, sine articulatione ungui gynostemii elastice 

 amxum, limbum versus medio crassius, in dorso sub apice retuso 

 dente s. tuberculo acuto carnoso, marginibus lateralibus extenuatis 

 recurvis erosulum. Gynostemium inferne in unguem applanatum 

 elongatum, superne semiteres, obtusatum, postice in dentem subu- 

 latum incurvum antheriferum protractum ; androclinio in apice 

 gynostemii excavato, in anteriori margine supra stigma profunde 

 exsculptum aliquantum glanduloso-calloso. Anther a opercularis, 

 conica, dorso affixa, bilocularis. Pollinia in floribus a me explo- 

 ratis jam emissa, sed, ut probabile, quemadmodum in aliis Specie- 

 bus, subglobosa, postice subangulato-depressa ac juxta sese invicem 

 margini glandulosae androclinii agglutinata. Capsula ellipsoidea, 

 subtrigona, perigonio deinde emarcido coronata, fissuris lateralibus 

 fenestratim dehiscens, unilocularis, intus stupposa, spermophoris 

 tribus costalibus lateralibus. Semina creberrima, minutissima, 

 forma irregulari, pleraque elongato-ellipsoidea et recta, alia cur- 

 vata; spermodermide relaxata, striolata, semipellucida, nucleum 

 ellipsoideo-globosum includente." 



Plants 7-8 cm. high, csespitose. Leaves fleshy, distichous, linear, 

 acute, channelled at base, compressed, 2 mm. thick, 2.5-5 cm. 

 long, obliquely erect. Peduncle short, 3 times shorter than the 

 leaf, mostly terminal. Bracts imbricate, about 4 mm. long, acute. 

 Flowers (black when dry) 5 mm. in vertical diameter. Lateral 

 sepals triangular-ovate, acute, forming with the lip and foot of 

 column an obtuse mentum 3 mm. long. Upper sepal 4 mm. 

 long, about 2 mm. wide, 3-nerved. Petals oblong apiculate, 

 3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Lip linear-oblong, margin cihate ; apex 

 rounded or slightly retuse ; disc with about 3 raised nerves, 

 caruncled, very obscurely 3-lobed near the apex with an acute 

 tubercle under the tip. Fruit an ellipsoidal capsule 5 mm, long. 

 Flowers in bracteate heads. 



