it “a splendid white flower, with a most extraordinary strong 
aromatic fragrance.” It is certainly very handsome and 
sweet; but not so much with us as it appears to be in 
Guatemala. 
Its aspect is not that of a Brasavola, but rather of a 
Cattleya, to which genus it was thought that it would belong : 
but as soon as the flower appeared it was found to be a true 
Brasavola, with all the characters that peculiarly mark that 
genus. Like others it has the anther-bed lacerated, but the 
dorsal tooth is tipped with a glandular swelling. Fig. 1. re- 
presents this; and fig. 2. the pollen-masses, artificially sepa- 
rated so as to show the large size of the powdery elastic straps 
that hold them together. 
This is found as easy to cultivate as any of the other Mexi- 
can Orchidaces, requiring a damp warm atmosphere when 
growing, and to be kept cool and dry when in a state of 
inaction. It will succeed either suspended from the roof of 
the house upon a block of wood, or in a well drained pot, the 
óhly difficulty in its cultivation being in inducing it to blos- 
som. Upon this subject I have received the following note 
from Mr. Fortune, who has succeeded in making it flower 
freely in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 
** At the base of every leaf there is a bud, and from the 
leaf itself the flower springs, which in many instances proves 
abortive, apparently owing to the luxuriance of the bud at its 
base. As a proof of this—after many fruitless attempts to 
make this plant flower—one of these buds was removed, which 
allowed the sap intended for the nourishment of that bud to 
go to the formation of the flower, and the result was the pro- 
duction of the subject of the present plate. In the following 
season the plant was covered with flowers upon the same prin- 
ciple, though not at the expense of its buds. "This was done 
by keeping it dry and not allowing the buds at the base to 
grow much until the flower stems were so far advanced as to 
be out of danger." 
It is easily propagated by division. 
