—— BARBACE’'NIA PURPUREA. — 
PURPLE.FLOWERED BARBACENIA. 
ENIA. secs Periconium corollinum infundibu- 
ripartibilis ; igma capitato-trigonum. 
, loculici vis, valvis medio septi- 
% % URPUREA. Padé KER, Fo.tts lineari-acuminatis 
carinatis spinuloso-serratis, see longiore, ovario elongato lineatim tu- 
to, antheris ba ora alii Hoo KER, ip Botanical Magazine, 
2 € ENUS, Wissel. PrRIGONE (perianth 
* ike, fannel-shaped, externally coated with re- 
he base with the ovary, limb 6-cleft, seg- 
er , spreading. Sramens 6, inserted on the 
t of the limb, erect, included; filaments flat, 
the apex, central tooth smallest, antheriferous, 
‘numerous, on placente standing out 
 ‘Srvzz triangular, divisible into 
api , eeornered. CapsvLe inferior, some- 
; , becoming by loculicidal dehiscence 3-val- 
ves having a septum in the middle, bearing the placente. 
jumerous, angular. 
SEEDS 
fe Tee oF THE Species, BARBACENIA PURPUREA. STEM 
short, = Petotomoiag y diyided, having at the base brown scales, higher 
up numerous long, linear, acuminate, flexuous or twisted, vaginating 
leaves, rigid, scarcely reflexed at the upper half, margins spinulose, 
