broadly ovate middle segment of its lip. I find both plants to 
be hairy at the base of the lower lip, the S. cordigera most so, 
according to the fine specimens preserved in my herbarium, 
^hich were gathered by W. Swainson, Esq. at Palermo in 
Sicily. The same excellent naturalist brought home living 
plants of S. Lingua, which flowered for two successive seasons 
at the Botanic Garden, Liverpool, in the month of April. 
It was from these individuals, kindly communicated by Mr 
Shepherd, that the accompanying figure was taken. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a single flower, nat. size. Fig. 2. A flower partly 
spread open, two of the leaflets of the perianth being separated from 
the 3 conjoined ones above, and shewing the column of fructification 
and lip. Fig. 3. Front view of the lip, removed from the flower. 
Fig. 4. Column; a. The anther; b, The stigma; c. The scar where 
the lip was attached. Fig. 5. PoUen-masses, united upon one com- 
mon gland. 
