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alternate, varying from half an inch to an inch and half in 
breadth, sometimes rounded with a short point at the top, 
sometimes lanceolate, sometimes of a silvery hue beneath 
and thickly covered with minute green dots, at others 
purplish.  JVower-stalk long, terminal, upright, entirely 
clothed by alternate sphacelate deciduous sheaths, in 
strong plants bearing several spikes? Spike refracted, 
many-flowered, pointing one way, with the flowers dis- 
posed in the form of avorymb. Corolla sessile, about three 
parts of an inch long; petals of a dusky reddish brown; 
lip of a yellowish herbaceous colour, with a firmness and 
gloss that gives it the appearance of being formed of wax; 
scent very faint. 
Native of the West Indies. Found by Swartz in Ja- 
maica, on trees growing on the mountains. Introduced by 
Lord Gardner in 1790. Produces several flowering stems 
from the same root at various times of the year. Requires 
the treatment which we have already recommended for 
another species (see fol. 17) from the same regions. 
The drawing was made this summer from a specimen in 
the hothouse at the nursery of Messrs, Lee and Kennedy, 
Hammersmith. 
a A front view of the summit of the shaft of fructification with a portion 
of the lip, showing the 4 pollen-masses as they present themselves upon the 
removal of the anther from which they have been excreted. & The 4 pollen- 
masses extracted from the recess in the summit of the shaft. c'The anther 
frontwise. d The converse of the same, showing its 4 partitions. All 
somewhat magnified, : : 
