lis bis brevior tubo cum fauce, laciniis.ovatis ; labium summum erecium, 
collaterali-divergens, concolor, laciniis lateralibus posticé versis obliquatis, 
media latiore subcordaté ; labium imum reflerum, connivens, subbrevius et 
depressius, maxima parte intens? flavescens, laciniis 3 strié media purpurea 
lanceolato-lineari verticali pictis, utrinque inflexis, media duplo angustiore at 
aquilongé ceteris, Anth. ochroleuca, fauce brevé emicantia, basi sagitiate, 
& dorso verticali-pensiles. Stig. albida, decurva, bifida, apiculis eroso-laceris. 
Trironra may be always known from Ix1a, by a tube 
which is enlarged to a broader faux, below which- the sta- 
mens are inserted, not as in Jxra, immediately at the foot 
of the limb; from Grapropus and Bariana by seed, which 
is neither alate (winged) nor baccate (berried); from Spa- 
RAXIS, to which it comes the nearest, by closer fitting un- 
lacerated spathes. In colour and inflection of the limb 
it is variable, like other genera of the order. 
The present is one of the rarest species of the tribe; 
and, as far as we can trace, has been now first introduced 
from the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy 
of the Hammersmith nursery, where the drawing was made 
in June. The stem or culm is from a foot and half to more 
than two feet long, of the size and appearance to be ex- 
pected in a grass of the same stature, divided into three or 
four divaricate distant branches, each terminated bya spike 
of about 7 flowers as well as itself. The foliage consists of 
several. grassy slightly glaucous narrow Jeaves, equitant 
and sheathing below, facing each other by the edges of 
the blade, reaching to the base of the uppermost spike. 
Flowers fragrant, inverted, about an inch and half deep, of 
a.pale greenish yellow colour, mottled with a deep orange 
yellow within the faux, and at the sides of the segments of 
the lower lip. Spathes very small, white, when viewed near 
streaked with purple, scarcely higher than the germen they 
enclose. Stamens ascendent, scarcely surmounting the orifice 
‘of the faux. Stigmas bifid, with uneven tips. 
A hardy greenhouse plant; requiring to be kept in peat- 
earth, and to have the bulbs taken up, and the offsets re- 
moyed at least every second year. 
a Corolla dissected vertically. 6 Pistil. 
