IONE. 
SEPALA membranacea, basi equalia, bilabiata: lateralibus 
parallelis seepius connatis, labello suppositis. 
PETAL nana 
ABELLUM posticum, integrum, sepalis majus v. eequale, mar- 
gine membranaceum, deme striatum carnosum, sepits in apicem 
pugioniformem productum. 
Co A nana, seit: libera, mutica, basi producta. 
Biteai i per paria ‘glandulis 2 distinctis cartilagineis 
ovalibus adna 
Herbee eign gener ti pseudobulbose. Folia solitaria, 
coriacea. Scapus radicalis, spicatus. Bractese membranacee, nunc 
spathace@, floribus erpeanac 
With the habit — a Sri sr or gem foto — genus unites the glands 
and pollen-masses ranous two-lipped calyx, 
dwarf petals, and fonts in nor a art va i us ex into a dagger- 
shaped point, are very unlike anything belonging to neighbouring genera 
T see no reason for regarding the glands as of . m 
§ 1. Latrroi2 ; bracteis spathaceis. 
1. L. cirrhata, 
I. foliis oblongis scapo — bracteis cucullatis acutis 
ovariis longioribus, se teralibus connatis, petalis rotundatis 
integerrimis, labello ovato oblongo integro lineis 2 elevatis basi 
clavatis aucto. 
Wild in Stxx1m-Hratara, at the oe of 4000 feet— 
J.D. Hooker, (v. s. sp. et ie. pict. Catheart.) 
Very much like the next ; but the leaves are longer, and the lip is not ser- 
rated, but is marked by two elevated white i — Poppe 
irrhi of a Gian: Vie wers dirty w th purple streaks 
violet Ii — aay account is almost wholly ecu from Mr. Cathcart’s figure in 
Dr. Hooker’s possession 
Sack btusis duplo brevi 
I. foliis oblongis planis pee Siciague ) scapo dup - 
oribus, bracteis oral acutis membranaceis distantibus ovario 
longioribus, sepalis lateralibus connatis, petalis acutis integerrimis, 
Jan. 10, 1853. 
