with process of lip left in situ to shew its position, front view ; 

 9, ditto, side view; 10, rostellum detached and laid open ; 11, one 

 of the pollinia. 



An erect slender glabrous herb, 25-48 cm. high ; leaves 2nate 

 radical oblong acute, attenuate at base into a sheathing petiole, 

 margins undulate, spreading or scarcely ascending, 6-20 cm. long, 

 3-6 cm. broad ; scape erect, rather straight, clothed with 2-5 remote 

 sheaths ; raceme laxly 12-15flowered, 6-15 cm. long, the flowers 

 spreading or arcuate— ascending, pedicels and ovary l*5-3 cm. 

 long ; bracts lanceolate acuminate much shorter than the pedi- 

 cellate ovary ; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-oblong obtusely 

 acuminate, with the odd sepal sprinkled with hyaline spots, 0'5 cm. 

 long, odd sepal broad ovate, a little shorter ; petals ovate- 

 lanceolate in outline concave, slightly adhering to the odd sepal ; 

 lip Spartite, the segments linear, lateral ones spreading, as long 

 as the petals, intermediate a little longer and broader, produced 

 at the base into a pendulous filiform spur usually as long as the 

 pedicellate ovary, furnished at the mouth of the spur with a tooth- 

 like erect process ; clinandrium subtruncate ; rostellum 3fid the 

 lateral segments short, the intermediate nearly twice as long and 

 wide ; stigmatiferous processes very short. 



Described from several dried and living specimens. The 

 drawing was made from a plant sent to me by Miss C. Newdigate 

 from the Knvsna. 



