John Sims

“ There are several species of Stylidium which possess a
singular irritability of the column, and, perhaps, this property
is in none more remarkable than in the present plant; in
which the column is, in its natural state, bent over the re-
flected labellum, so as to bring the capitulum, containing the
anthers and stigma, nearly in contact with the germen ”

“ Limb of Corolla five-cleft,
four of the laciniæ ovate, spreading, two upper ones some-
what larger than the lower: the fifth (or labellum) smaller,
linear, recurved, having two small, subulate, upright ap-
pendices at its base: tube longer than calyx: faux beset with
eight thread-like, glandular processes, erect, unequal. Column
flattened-cylindrical sigmoid, bearing at its extremity two
two-loved anthers with lobes extremely divaricate, and be-
tween them the green stigma, more evident after the anthers
have discharged their pollen ”

“ Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol. 1807. 49. t. 1. f. 1. Willd. ibid. 55. Ejusdem Sp. Pl. 4. p. 146. Labillard. Nov. Holl. 2. p. 65. t. 215.
Stylidium serrulatum. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 210.
Ventenatia major. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p. 13. t. 66.
Candollea serrulata. Labillard. in Annal. du Mus. 6. p. 454.
t. 74. f. 2.
Descr. Root fibrous, annual? Leaves radical, erect,
linear-lanceolate, rigid, minutely denticulate, having a her-
baceous somewhat acid taste. Scape a foot or more in height,
without leaves or scales, clothed with glandular hairs. Inflorescence a spiked raceme. ”