A genus established under the present name by Dr. 
Swartz. Its species are numerous, and found in the East 
Indies, New Holland, and Van Diemen’s Island. The 
flowers, after some contestation among botanists in regard 
to their structure, are proved to be gynandrous, with two 
anthers; but still of a nature that brings them in contact 
with the Campanulacee, and not with the Orchidee. 
We know of no representation of the present species 
taken from the living plant. It was found by Sir Joseph 
Banks in New South Wales; afterwards by Mr. Brown in 
Van Diemen’s Island. : Root fibrous, perennial. Leaves 
radical, ambient, numerous, lanceolate-linear, denticulate. 
Scape central, a foot or more high, longer than the foliage, 
leafless, simple, round, about as thick as a straw of grass, 
-as well as the inflorescence beset throughout with glandular, 
hairs (something in the way of Drosrra.) Racemes spiked, 
_ upright, numerous; larger bractes ovate, concave, single; 
smaller nearer to the germen, double. Cai. superior, per- 
sistent, bilabiately parted; upper lip trifid, lower bifid. 
Cor. of a dim pink colour, monadelphous, tubular, by a 
half-contortion of the tube from facing the lower lip of the 
calyx, turned to face one side of the insterstice between 
the two lips: ¢wbe longer than the calyx, orifice beset by 
4 small bifid teethlike lobules: ¢imb quinquepartite, irreou-: 
lar, patent; 4 larger segments obovate, in pairs, one of 
each pair somewhat smaller; the fifth or dabellum placed 
in front, separated by a deeper fissure, small, deflected 
below the divisions of the other four on one side of the 
interlabial cleft of the calyx, oblong, with two minute as- 
cendent linear lobules one on each side its base, thickened: 
and somewhat convex inwards at the disk. Germen obovate, 
brownish ; column rising from the summit of this, linear, 
longer than the limb, reclined and bent with a double curve, 
protruding from the corolla thro’ the gap left by the depres-., 
sion of the labellum, but upon the slightest excitement 
beneath the outermost curve, passing with a sudden spring 
to the opposite side of ‘the flower, hanging over the limb: 
with the stigma pointing downwards. An endowment 
apparently given to preserve . the parts intrusted to its. 
care from being injured by insects, previous to the com- 
pletion of the purpose for which they have been designed. 
Anthers two, yellow, incumbent on the plane of the stigma 
which crowns the shaft of the column, two-lobed, lobes 
from vertical diverging divaricately. Stigma green, obtuse, 
