Victorian Plants. 415 



1793. Flowers except the calyx-tube pink, whitish or 



reddish- or brownish-yellow ... ... 1794 



Flowers except the calyx-tube blue ... ... ... 1797 



1794. Quite glabrous. 



Rather tall, somewhat robust ; basal leaf much elongated, 

 from lanceolar- to broad-linear; stem-leaves two or three, 

 diminutive, bract-like ; flowers two or oftener few or 

 several, nearly sessile, often reddish or brownish upwards 

 and yellowish towards the base ; bracts very conspicuous ; 

 upper lobe of the calyx narrow- or linear-lanceolar ; lower 

 calyx-lobes as well as the petals almost linear; labellum 

 arched-curved, slightly trifid, generally white towards the 

 base and pale-yellowish towards the summit, the lateral 

 lobes dark -red, its middle lobe almost semielliptical ; 

 glandules copious, yellow ; fruit slender. 



C, snaveolens. 

 More or less beset with hairlets ... ... ... 1795 



1795. Basal leaf elongate- or elliptic-lanceolar. 



Much beset with soft hairlets ; stem-leaves one or two, 

 diminutive ; bracts conspicuous ; flowers, mostly two or 

 three, seldom more ; calyx-lobes and petals almost elliptic- 

 lanceolar, pink or occasionally whitish ; labellum com- 

 paratively short, conspicuously trifid, the middle lobe 

 narrow -lanceolar, glandular -notched ; glandules con- 

 verging in the middle of the labellum ; fruit slender. 



C. latifolia. 

 Basal leaf broad-linear ...... ... 1796 



1796. Glandules of the labellum yellow or whitish or 



reddish. 



Slender, usually rather dwarf ; somewhat beset with often 

 glandule-bearing hairlets ; stem-leaf diminutive, bract- 

 like ; bracts conspicuous ; flowers one to five, rather 

 small ; calyx -lobes and petals almost lanceolar, pink or 

 whitish, or outside somewhat brownish or greenish ; the 

 upper calyx-lobe somewhat curved inward ; labellum 

 slightly trifid, as well as the gynostemium transversely 

 streaked ; the middle lobe semilanceolar-deltoid, re- 

 curved, pointed, smooth or somewhat glandular, slightly 

 fringed ; fruit slender. C. carnea. 



Glandules of the labellum purplish-black. 



Slender, beset with minute glandule-bearing hairlets ; flowers 

 one to three, pink ; calyx-lobes and petals almost lanceolar ; 

 labellum deeply trifid, the middle lobe semi-lanceolar, 

 recurved, quite covered with glandules ; fruit slender. 

 (Perhaps a variety of the preceding.) C. congesta. 



