smaller spatulate rounded above and entire; in M. Link's 
the larger lip is oblately round retusely bilobed and spotted 
within, the smaller lanceolate and taper-pointed. 
The figure we have quoted from Marcgrave's Natural 
History of the Brazils is from the dried subject, and an- 
swers satisfactorily to labiosa; but having been applied by 
others to ringens, instead of suggesting doubts on the score 
of identity, was whimsically censured for not resembling 
that which it was clearly not intended to resemble. 
The smaller lip in our plant, though a correct represent- 
ation of that of the subject it was drawn from, is much 
shorter than the same shown in the figure in Professor 
Link's publication; but we are notwithstanding convinced 
of the natural identity of the two plants in respect to 
species. 
We were liberally favoured by Mr. Aiton with the sample 
of this remarkable shrub from Kew gardens, where it has 
been introduced from the Brazils by Messrs. Cunningham 
and Bowie, the King's collectors. 
It forms a fine-looking climber for the hothouse trellis ; 
but the fresh flower exhales a most offensive stench, not un- 
like that of stale fish. The spots within the larger lip are 
the transparencies of those on the outside. The foliage is of 
a beautiful green. 
In variety of lurid hues and disgusting odours, the 
flowers of this genus have a curious analogy with those of 
STAPELIA. 
