The plant here described is the only certain species of 

 Lissochilus ; Cymbidium giganteum, however, according 

 to Thunberg's description, may also belong to the same 



genus. 



This genus in affinity comes nearest to those plants 

 of South Africa at present referred to Limodorum and 

 Cymbidium, namely, Limodorum hat^hatum, triste, longi' 

 come, and perhaps also hians of Thunberg (not however 

 Satyrium hians Linn, whicli seems to be a Disa), Cym- 

 bidium pedicellatum and aculeatum. These along with 

 several Indian species also referred by Swartz and Willde- 

 now to Limodorum, especially L. virens, caHnatum, and 

 perhaps epidendroides, form a genus (Eulophus), related on 

 the one hand to Dipodium (vide prodr. Jlor. nov. holl. p. 

 330), and essentially agreeing with Lissochilus in the struc- 

 ture of anthera, but sufficiently different from it in its 

 trilobed crested labellum, which is neither cordate nor con- 

 nected at base with the column. In both these characters 

 Lissochilus equally differs from Angrcecum of M. du Petit 

 Thouars, which has also an elongated spur and a consider- 

 ably different habit. 



Among the plants at present referred to, Limodorum, 

 another very distinct genus may be noticed, consisting of 

 I^imodorum veratrijolium, and judging from Ksempfer's 

 figure, L. striatum also. This genus (Calanthe) agrees 

 with Bletia in having eight pollen masses, but differs from 

 it in the claw of the labellum being connected with the 

 column. It is not unlikely that this may be the Cyanmhis 

 of M. du Petit Thouars, who will probably hereafter pub- 

 lish it under a different name. Broum MSS. 



Our plant is one of the handsomest of its natural family, 

 and until introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. 

 Griffin, unnoticed by any writer, and a stranger to both 

 our gai-dens and herbariums. It flowered this summer in the 

 hothouse at South Lambeth, throwing up a stem more than 

 four feet high, which reminded us of that of the Tuberose, 

 and producing a spike of fragrant blossom, that by suc- 

 cessive expansion became nearly two feet long, and lasted 

 almost two months in beauty. 



We feel pride that this work has been the means of 

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