root, about a foot high, sheathed, at the upper end naked 
the sheaths and bracteee membranous and veiny ; the 
latter longer than the ovarium. Jowers yellow, about 
an inch long, crowded in a close capitate raceme. Peri- 
anthium spreading. The three ewternal sepals imbricating 
at the base, oval-lanceolate, equal; the lateral cordate fir 
front, with their anterior margin placed underneath the 
labellum ; the two inner smaller, but of the same figure. 
Labellum anterior, oblong, calcarate, cucullate, 3-lobed 
the lateral lobes short, obtuse, smooth, the middle one 
tongue-shaped, with a bearded disk; spur short, straight, 
conical, retuse. Column much shorter than. the labellum 
rather longer than the spur, half round, margined. Stigma 
transverse, excavated. Anther terminal, opercular, dens 
duous, emarginate, 2-celled, with no rudiment of a disse- 
iment. Pollen masses 2, deeply furrowed, waxy, with a 
short caudicula and a transverse gland. ' 
J. L. 
Nore upon Sophronia modesta, fol. 1129. . 
me this article was written, we had not received the Botanical 
Division of Captain Freycinet’s Voyage, in which there is a genus of Fungi 
named Sophronia. This being the case, it is necessary, in order to avoid 
confusion, that we abou alter our name; our readers are therefore 
requested to substitute Sophronetis for Sophronia. : 
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