cohering in pairs.) Column bent back, twice flexed. Anthers bi- 
lobular, lobes much divaricated. Stigma blunt, undivided. Cap¬ 
sule bilocular, the dissepiment being sometimes incomplete above. 
Description of the Species, Stylidium drummondii. Leaves 
(4—8 inches long, 3 lines broad) all radical, lanceolato-linear, atten¬ 
uated and rigid at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous, and shining on both 
sides, undulate, edges revolute, middle rib prominent both above and 
below, collected into fascicles, and sheathed at the base by elongated 
red scales. Scape twice as long as the leaves, erect, round, glandu- 
loso-pubescent, green, bearing upon its apex a large ovate panicle, of 
which the branches are glanduloso-pubescent, ascending, the low^er 
the longer, each springing from the axil of a lanceolato-subulate 
glanduloso-pubesceut bract, and having a similar bract at each subdi¬ 
vision. Flow^ers large and handsome, the terminal one of each 
branch, somewhat irregularly upwards, expands first, and also the ter¬ 
minal one of each subdivision. Calyx green, glanduloso-pubescent; 
tube adherent, twisted, elliptico-ovate; limb bilabiate, the lips placed lat¬ 
erally after expansion of the flower, the upper 3-fid, the lower 2-partite, 
the segments linear-elliptical, as long as the tube. Corolla (fully one 
inch broad from above dowuiwards, one inch across the middle of the 
upper, three-fourths of an inch across the middle of the lower segments, 
and half an inch across the faux) very handsome; limb yellow on the 
outside, and brownish within before full expansion, afterwards nearly 
white on the outside, over the whole of which surface it is glanduloso- 
pubescent, and bright but delicate lilac on the inside, where it is glabrous, 
having four segments diverging in form of a St. Andrew’s cross, ellip¬ 
tical, undulate, and sinuated, the two lower segments being rather the 
smaller, and more nearly obovate; fifth lobe minute, reflected upon 
the tube, obovate, colourless and shining in the centre, having a glandu¬ 
lar reddish lilac border, broadest at the apex, and two slender ciliated 
teeth curved upwards at its base; faux crowned with two erect scimi¬ 
tar-shaped appendages, hairy, and about one-third of the length of the 
upper segments at the base of which they are placed, and two small 
slender diverging bipartite teeth at the base of the lower segments, 
the former being tipped with lilac, though white below, the latter 
every where colourless ; tube colourless, twisted. Column flattened, 
slightly dilated in the middle, where it is reflected over the fifth lobe 
of the corolla, above this flexure slightly coloured lilac for a little way 
