than the internodes. Bracts linear-lanceolate, the 2 or 3
lowest longer than the flowers, but nearly always shorter than
the ripe fruit, all much smaller than the uppermost leaf.
Flowers varying from dull yellow to blackish red, the petals
usually paler. Peduncle shorter than the downy germen.
Sepals and petals ovate, acute, equal in length, keeled at the
back. Lip as long as the petals; its terminal division transversely
oval, crenate, slightly notched in the middle with a
small acute point in the notch, the middle of the upper surface
occupied by a triangular, elevated, folded and tubercular-
crenate space.
This beautiful plant inhabits the stony slopes of rubbish at
the base of limestone cliffs on the mountains near Settle in
Yorkshire, and was long since distinguished as a species by
Ray. Its peculiar lip separates it from the allied plants, all
of which have the terminal division decidedly triangular. Our
specimens were gathered at the base of Giggleswick Scar near
Settle, on the 22nd of July 1843, at which time the plant was
in full flower.—C. C. B.