thrice shorter bracte at the base. Germen more than an 
inch long, greenish white, slender, slightly clavate, shal- 
lowly bent somewhat in the form of an S, angularly 
fluted, twisted. Corolla of one colour, very slightly nutant, 
‘radiately spread, about 2 inch across, nearly equal: 5 petals 
of the same shape, standing asunder, ascending slightly to- 
wards the upper middle one, linearly oblong, acuminate, 
narrow, flat; 3 exterior ones revolute; 2 lower lateral ones 
with the lower part applied broadways to the sides of the 
label, diverging upwards revolutely: abel pointing forwards 
and recurved, oblong, biformed, not longer and scarcely. 
broader than the other five petals; wnguis detached, cune- 
ately oblong, convolutely concave, with a pointed toothlike 
lobe on each side at the top, marked where it joins the 
lamina with a transverse plait; lamina or blade narrower, 
scarcely longer than the unguis, oblong, slightly tapered, 
truncately retuse, subdeflectent; spur detached, filiform, 
equal to or rather longer than the germen, turned up front- 
Ways with a circular bend, so that the point becomes even 
with or higher than the rest of the corolla, yellow and bluntish 
at the end. Column white, oblong, about thrice shorter than 
the corolla, detached, hollowed its whole length in front, the 
cavity incumbent upon the parallel one of the unguis of the 
label. Anther hemispherical, terminal, moyeable, deciduous, 
bilocular; pollen-masses two, yellow, opaquely frosted, solid, 
of a cartilaginous consistence, depressedly hemispherical, 
something of the shape of the knee-pan in miniature, hori- 
zontal, fixed side by side at their inner margins in a hori- 
zontal direction to a membranous subsagittately dilated pe- 
dicle, which adheres to the front edge of the apex of the 
column, flattish underneath, where within the edge of the 
periphery of their outer sides they are pierced for about half 
their diameter obliquely with a compressed triangular punc- 
ture which points towards their centre. Stigma placed in 
front at the base and within the hollow of the column, 
looking upwards, white, resembling two small studs or 
bosses, opposite the foot of the label. 
——x 
a The two pollen-masses with their pedicle, removed from the receptacle 
of the anther, in the state they appear when they have left the summit of the 
column to apply themselves to the stigma at the foot. 
