Stig. in tammd columnd mUicum, cavum, secemeiw, aI6tHii, orbicubito-dita- 

 taium, obliquum, lobulo decurvo infici jn-omhmio k^iatunty rapr^ rotteliatum. 

 Germ. oblMgum, n^semiundalef p«6esceiu, melmo-subrubetcens, obsolete 

 costatumf basi sem^yrato-torium. 



Introduced into our hothouses from Jamaica about 1806, 

 by the late Mr. E. I, A. Woodford^ but continues a very 

 scarce plant ; nor had we met with it for many years before 

 this winter, when it flowered in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, where the drawing was taken. 



The species comes the nearest of any to speciosay in whicb 

 however the leaves are undulate and not glaucous, the stem 

 and flowers entirely smooth, the corolla of a much brighter 

 red without the elongated pouch in front, the column 

 bearded in front, the stigma without a prominent nether 

 lip, and the stem at least three times shorter. 



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In orchioides the stem is two feet high or niore, and as 

 well as the inflorescence covered with a Mzzly pubes- 

 cence and appears before the leaves, which are glaucous and 

 not undulated. The corolla terminates downwards in a 

 short thick oblong pouch parallel with the front of the 

 germen, which pouch is formed by the elongated bases of 

 the two outer side-petals enclosing the elongated Jrizzly 

 bearded base of the label. The column is entirely smooth 

 in front ; and the stigma has a prominently recurved nether 

 lip. In speciosa the anther does not occupy the whole 

 space in the back of the column, but in orchioides it does. 



The drawing in Curtis's Magazine has been taken from 

 a plant in a veiy difierent state from the one represented in 

 the present plate, if it is really of the same species. Ours 

 is clearly the orchioides of Swartz. 



