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upwards almost setular; labellum very short, ovate- or 

 orbicular- cordate, glabrous, its basal appendage almost 

 brush-like ; gynostemium upwards much pointed ; fruit 

 slender. F. pedaloglossa. 



Labellum linear-elliptical. 



Dwarf; basal leaves quite small, from orbicular- to 

 rhomboidal-ovate ; stem-leaf one only, bract-like ; upper 

 calyx-lobe simply acute ; lower calyx-lobes upwards almost 

 setular, the wide sinus between them bearing a minute 

 inflexed lobule in the middle ; labellum short, blunt, its 

 appendage imperfectly penicillar ; upper angle of the 

 gynostemium-appendages pointed ; fruit rather' slender. 



I*, jiana. 



1813. Basal and stem-leaves of nearly equal size. 



Rather tall, occasionally very much so ; basal leaves few, 

 large, sometimes very long, rather firm, from ovate- to 

 elongate -1 an ceolar ; stem-leaves one or two, nearly as 

 long as the others but narrower ; bract large, quite leaf- 

 like ; flower very large, its stalklet soon elongated ; 

 upper calyx-lobe short-pointed ; lower calyx-lobes almost 

 setularly narrowed, reaching across and somewhat beyond 

 the upper ; labellum glabrous, narrowly elliptical-lanceolar, 

 hardly pointed, its basal appendage brush-like ; append- 

 ages of the gynostemium minutely apiculated, glabrous ; 

 fruit somewhat turgid. I*. CUCUllata. 



Basal leaves much larger than the stem-leaves. 1814 



1814. Flower much bent downward. 



Somewhat tall or comparatively dwarf; basal leaves from 

 lanceolar-to roundish-ovate ; stem-leaf only one, generally 

 near the others but much smaller or bract-like ; flower on 

 a long stalklet ; bract conspicuous ; upper calyx-lobe 

 longitudinally much curved inward, slightly pointed, 

 about equal in length to the two lower ; labellum narrow- 

 elliptical, blunt, glabrous, its basal appendage somewhat 

 brush-like; upper angle of the gynostemium-appendages 

 ending in very narrow and pointed lobules ; fruit rather 

 slender. P. nutans. 



Flower hardly or slightly bent downward ... ... 1815 



1815. Labellum much pointed. 



Never tall ; basal leaves from lanceolar- to orbicular-ovate ; 

 stem -leaves one or two, bract-like; flower large, much 

 incurved from above the middle longitudinally ; upper 



