troduced in 1793 by Rear-admiral William Bligh, in the 
Providence. : 
Professor Jacquin having described in the specific phrase 
to difforme the column of the flower as equal to the corolla, 
and the /abellum as obcordate; Dr. Swartz has had the 
precaution to rename our plant, subjoining Jacquin’s merely 
as a probable synonym. Ia his general description, how-- 
ever, the former will be found to speak of the column, only 
as almost equal to the corolla. We have reviewed attentively 
what each of them has said of his subject, and inspected 
both specimens of their plants in the Banksian Herbarium 
(where Jacquin’s indeed is flowerless), and are persuaded of 
the specific identity of the two. 
The corolla, when full blown, by a contortion of the lower 
part of the germen which supports it, is always resupinate, 
that is, with the directions of the upper and lower halves 
of its plane reversed, as in the european Violets. Germen 
together with the short continuous pedicle about an inch 
high, cylindrical, tapering downwards, prominently three- 
ribbed, unilocular, with three parietal placentiform recep- 
tacles, attaching numerous ovula. Corolla superior, five- 
parted, segments lanceolate, equal in length, varicosely 
nerved, ¢wo inner very narrow and linear. Labellum ( Nectary 
Linn.) placed between the two outer lateral segments of the 
corolla, which it rather exceeds and differs from in form 
and consistence, conjoined for the length of its narrow up- 
right turbinately tubular spurless unguis with the column 
in front; lamina broad, patent, cordate, rounded, transversely 
broader, conspicuously veined, 3-lobed, two Jdateral lobes 
large, rounded, descending far down the sides of the column; 
middle one small, cleft into two blunt flat lobules; a straight 
prominent nerve passes to the apex from the mouth at the 
base, on each side of which is placed a raised green-coloured 
glandule. Column (or gynandrous style) upon the summit 
of the germen, upright, semicylindrical, one third or more 
shorter-than the corolla, edge of the summit scarcely raised 
beyond the anther. Stamen an anther inserted nearest the 
nether side of the summit of the column, lid-shaped, move- 
able, deciduous, brown, hemispherical; cedlules 4, parallel, 
convergent, standing on the inner front .of the lid-shaped- 
receptacle, and immersed in the cavity at the: summit of 
the column. Pollen-masses 4, globular, compact, smooth, pa- 
rallel, each tailed by a short granulated thread, by which it 
becomes fixed to the stigma, when the case of the anther 
