vaulted on the labellum. But in A. maximum, Roxburgh 
does not seem to attach a high degree of importance to this 
circumstance ; for he not only omits it in the specific 
character of that species, but inserts it in the definition of 
A. dealbatum, as if contrasting the permanence of the form 
in one species with the uncertainty of it in the other. 
The seeds are said to possess a warm, pungent, aromatic 
taste, not unlike that of Cardamoms, but by no means so 
grateful. 
Professor Sprengel, in his new edition of the Systema 
Vegetabilium has, in his translation of Roxburgh's specific 
character of this plant, mistaken the single lunar lobe of 
the filament, for three lunar lobes, answering to the pointed 
divisions of the filament, which are common in other species. 
He also calls the capsule 7-winged instead of : 9-wmg«l j 
but the latter is possibly an error of the press. 
A tender stove plant, which may be cultivated in the 
same manner as others of its tribe. It is recommended by 
Mr. Sweet, in his Hothouse and Greenhouse Manual, " to 
be planted in rich, sandy soil, and to be grown in large 
pots, in a moist heat." Of this very useful book, we 
perceive that a second edition has been lately published, 
containing much new information, especially upon the 
treatment of those plants which are the most difficult to 
cultivate. We recommend this work to every lover of 
gardening. 
Stem erect, smooth, covered by the persistent sheath of 
former leaves, bulbous at the base. Leaves terminal, 2-3, 
spreading, 1^, foot long, narrow-lanceolate, dark green, of 
the same colour in every part, smooth, and somewhat 
shining above, downy beneath. Flowers in a radical oval 
head, with a short, scaly scape. Brackce lanceolate, fer- 
. ruginous, pressed close to the perianthium, and as long 
as the outer. Outer perianthium tubular, split on its lower 
side, 3-lobed at end, withering, pale pink. Inner perian- 
thium with the segments of its outer limb 3, spreading, 
somewhat on one side, oblong, channelled, obtuse, lemon- 
coloured, membranous, united into a short bowed tube ; 
labellum obovate, membranous, curled and crenate at 
edge, somewhat diaphanous, veiny, longer than segments, 
with a tooth on each side at the base. Anther incumbent 
on the labellum, oblong, reniform, and edged at the end 
Cells close together, parallel, embracing the style by their 
union. Style fiUform, smooth, with two downy corpuscles 
at its base. Stigma oblique, capitate, funnel-shaped, com- 
pressed, with the edge of the orifice ciliated. J. L. 
