of the Japura in the Province of Rio Negro, flowering in 
February. It blossomed at nearly the same time in the Chis- 
wick Garden, and with Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collection 
our drawing was made last August. 
. It is of course, like other Surinam plants, a very tender 
species, and requires the hottest and dampest part of a stove ; 
but there is no Orchideous plant which is more easy to 
cultivate, or more ready to multiply. It thrives in decayed 
leaf-mould, better than in any other compost, and may be 
readily known when out of flower, by the bright light green 
colour of its leaves, and by its peculiarly thin pseudobulbs, 
which often curve down upon themselves, as is represented 
in our figure. 
If this is not equal to Zelia in the size of its flowers, and 
the brilliancy of its colours, it far surpasses that plant in its 
exquisite fragrance, which is like nothing so much as newly 
gathered cowslips and primroses. 
