with very minute whitish dots, about the thickness of the little finger in its upper part, round, smooth, 
its juice acid and caustic as in Arum. Leaves alternate at 5 or 6 inches distance: Petiole yellowish 
green, short, very hollow: ina green, from 4 to 6 inches long and 1} to 2 road, recurved espe- 
cially at the point, elliptic-lanceolate with the base not quite equilateral, very entire and almost 
transparent at the margin, acuminated, smooth on both surfaces, finely striated, somewhat convex, 
exceedingly tough. Flowers exhaling a fragrant smell like that of many Pancratiums especially during 
the night, in a short terminal spike. Bracte of the lowest flower not differing from a leaf, the rest 
suddenly shortened wedge-shaped and rounded at the top. Peduncle flexuose. Pedicel whitish, 
about 4 an inch long, cylindrical, smooth. Pericarpium about 2 inches long and 2 lines and a half 
in diameter before the petals fall, incurved, slightly twisted, almost cylindrical with its’ extremity 
swelled, smooth, 1-locular. Petals 6: 5 greenish yellow, 3 outer ones 2 inches and a half long, re- 
curved, middle one spatuled-lanceolate, the two lower somewhat falcated ; two inner ones paler 
rather shorter and more erect, spatulate with a strong middle rib on the outside which terminates | 
below the top in a recurved awl-shaped point ; very entire, obtuse, smooth, hollow, not waved: La- 
bellum very pale yellow with white edges, shorter than the other petals, melliferous at the bottom, 
united to the sides of the style almost up to the stigma, from thence embracing the top, swelled in 
tront like the flower of the Foxglove, slightly 3-lobed ; lobes revolute especially the middle one, which 
is more crenated, very retuse, and plicated ; mouth of the tubular part covered by a fringed tassel 
of imbricated obversely wedge-shaped scales, above this covered in the disc by 7 rows of yellow tu- 
bercles ; all dissolving into a gelatinous consistence, and falling off with the style. Style pale yel- 
low, 1} inch long, incurved, finely bearded in front nearly up to the stigma, above it hollow and 
dilated with faleated siles. Anther pale yellow, inserted in the back margin of the style, moveable 
like a hinge but not to be detached without force, nearly globular, its base projecting into 2 horns, 
2-locular with a partition in each cell, 4-valved. Pollen white, grumous, and I believe discharged 
in separate grains but adhering very closely to its receptacle within the valves in both the anthers 
which I dissected. Stigma whitish, just under the top of the style in front, covered by a semicircular 
flap projecting from under the anther, emarginated, hollow, its mouth shut by two opposite curved 
Spurs, very gelatinous. Seeds inserted on 3 parietal lobed receptacles, 
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REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. The upper part of the Style, somewhat magnified shewing the anthers and flap which cover the 
Stigma. 2. The inside of the upper part of the Labellum. 3. A view of the undet side of the 
Anthers when its valves have split, highly magnified. 4, A front view of the Style highl mag- 
nified, the flap being lifted up to show the stigma. ee ee 
