12 MR. W. FAWCETT AND DR. A. B. RENDLE ON 
interdum breviores interdum longiores; flores densi, plures. Sepala ovata, acumi- 
nata, lateralia $-connata, divaricata. Petala, apice obscuro, utrinque subzequaliter 
extensa, lobis linearibus ad lineari-oblongis, obtusis vel obtusiusculis. Zabellwm cum 
lobo mediano obsoleto, lobis lateralibus ad latera columne appressis, supra medium 
expansis et lanceolatis (anteriore acutis) columnam amplectentibus. 
Capsula 
obovoidea. 
Stems 2:5-10 cm. long, rarely longer (to 15 cm.) Leaves, including the short stalk, 
generally 2-3 cm., rarely to 4 cm., long, by 8-13 mm. broad, often purple beneath. 
Racemes 2-35 em. long. Sepals with apices diverging, very variable in size, from 
4-6 mm. long and from 2-4 mm. broad : colour varying with age; when the flower opens 
it is a transparent light yellow slightly shaded with crimson down the centre; as the flower 
grows older the crimson shading extends almost to the edges showing very little of the 
yellow. Petals 2:5-3:5 mm. broad, lobes 75 to 1:5 mm. wide ; upper half orange, lower 
half crimson, the crimson colour sometimes ex tending nearly to the edge. When the 
flower opens the tips of both lobes overlap, then they straighten, but in the old flower 
converge again; when the lobe-tips converge the apex of the petal appears distinctly 
acute, but when the petals are straight the apex is not evident. Lip crimson, with more 
or less orange shading ; the upper margins of the lateral lobes lanceolate, with the pointed 
end anterior, the blunt end curving round behind the column. Column crimson ; anther 
light purplish. Capsule 5 mm. long by 4 mm. in diameter, bearing six ridges. 
Hab. Near Woodeutter's Gap, at 4000 ft, W. Harris, March 6; Portland Gap, 
W. Fawcett, Aug. 4; Morse's Gap, at 4800 ft., JW. Fawcett, Oct. ; Ridge above Morse's 
Gap, at 5300 ft., on tree-trunks, W. Harris, April 22; Newhaven Gap, at 4000 ft., 
W. Harris, Feb. 10; Blue Mountain Peak, at 7000 ft., JV. Harris, May 31; John Crow 
Peak and neighbourhood, W, Fawcett $ W. Harris, Aug. to April; Moy Hall, C. F. 
Sullivan, Sept. 14. | 
Var. MINOR. 
Herba minor, foliis quam in typo minus acuminatis, floribus sanguineis. 
Stems to 3 em. long ; leaves broadly elliptical, very shortly acuminate, rarely exceeding 
1'5 cm. long by 1 em. broad; racemes slightly longer than the blade, to 2 em. long. 
Dorsal sepal 3 mm. long by barely 2 mm. broad, lateral sepals 3:2 mm. long. Petals 
less than ‘5 mm. long, 2:5 mm. broad. Upper surface of lip-lobes lanceolate, acute, a little 
over 2 mm. long. | 
Hab. Moy Hall, C. F. Sullivan, Sept. 14. | 
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