It is found to bear the hottest and dampest stove, but like 
all the terrestrial species requires a season of repose. 
Beautiful as is this plant it must be equalled in the 
showiness of its blossoms by the Mazillaria liliacea, or 
Azuzena del Monte of the people of Valladolid, in the 
neighbourhood of which town it grows beneath the shade of 
trees. This plant is described as having a scape about a 
foot high, terminated by a thryse of snow-white flowers, whose 
segments are variegated with purple lines, and whose lip is 
spotted at the base with yellow. It is also in all probability 
a Govenia, and may be named G. liliacea. 
Of a similar noble aspect is a species collected in Mexico 
by Count Karwinski, near Atotovilco el Chico, in a cool 
climate, flowering in June and July. Specimens of this 
plant, belonging tothe Royal Herbarium of Munich, are 
now before us. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, tapering to 
each end, especially to the point, a foot long and about 5 
inches wide, and very like those of Govenia superba, except 
that they are smaller. The stem is stated to be five feet 
high. It is terminated by a short and very dense headed 
raceme of large flowers, to each of which is an oblong obtuse 
bract, not quite so long as the ovary. The raceme is 4 
inches long, and as much broad at the base. In the form 
of the flowers it resembles Govenia superba very much, but 
they are three times as large ; the sepals are an inch and 
half long and the other parts in proportion. The lip has an 
ovate form, but is not cordate at its base, it is not quite 
half so long as the sepals, and is marked towards its end 
with largish round very dark dots. The colour of the flowers 
cannot be ascertained from the dried specimen, but seems to 
have been pale and uniform; probably pale yellow. This 
plant may be thus distinguished — 
G. capitata ; labello ovato obtuso, racemo capitato, bracteis oblongis obtusius- 
culis, foliis oblongis acuminatis basi angustatis scapo multo brevioribus. 
