An unrccorticd orcliidcoiis spc-ies, rccpiitly introduced 

 from the Ika^iis by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Ilam- 

 mersniith Nursery, ^yherc the drawinj,^ was taken from a 

 plant that flowered in the hothouse in January last. We 

 have enrolled it under Goodveua, notwithstanding the dis- 

 agreement in regard to a characteristic that has heen pro- 

 posed as essential to that genus; viz. the convergence of the 

 tM'o exterior front segments of the eovoUa nnder the label, 

 ■whicJi two segments are here widely divergent, and extended 

 like wings. In general resemblance, however, the plant 

 approaches too near to Goodvera to suggest the expediency 

 of originating a new generic grou]) from it, especially as that 

 genus is still sparingly stocked with species. A very slight 

 modification of the present generic character will make room 

 for our plant. 



Roofstock fleshy horizontal, cylindrical, about the thick- 

 ness of a mans finger, scored in circles by the scars of the 

 fallen leaves, blacldsh red or liver-colom'ed, candescent and 

 radicant upwards, imbranched, leafy at the top. Leaves 

 scattered all round, two-coloured, sheathingly petioled, 

 sheaths red, hhde thickish, oval, tapered both ways, acu- 

 minate, about 3 inches long, finely and shiningly cluigreened, 

 blackish green on the tipper side, on the under smootli, and 

 crimson-coloured. Ion git udiu ally nerved, flexuosely veined 

 in the intervals of the nerves. Scape terminal, npngiit, 

 stiff, about a foot long, of the thickness of a pen or thicker, 

 round, covered by a white fur, furnished here and there 

 with I>arren close-pressed bractes larger than those of the 

 inflorescence. Spike simple, npriglit, cylindrical loosishly 

 manyflowered, about 3 inclies long. Bractes mend>ranons, 

 red, glitteringly frosted, lanceolately acuminate, convolute, 

 longer than the germeu, 3-nerved, upright, sharp-pointed, 

 slightly fringed. Flower* reversed, nodding, sessile, white, 

 crucially ringent, about | of an inch across: germen twisted 

 half an inch long, bent at the top, rather longer than the 

 corolla, white-furred. Corolla appearing as of 4 segments 

 only; y^^meff^y of one length, outer opaquely frosted, inner 

 shiningly frosted; casgue ovately elliptic, upright, obtuse 

 gibbous at the back, formed of 2 lateral narrow paraboli- 

 cally lanceolate interior segments that lap over and adhere 

 by their inmost edge to each side of a middle oval one of 

 twice their own breadth; 2 exterior lateral segments ob- 

 longly ovate with a rounded point, horizontally spread, in- 

 tersecting the ricture of the flower transversely, slanting 



