flowers, white without and violet within, smelling of Wall- 
flowers. Another has the inflorescence of a Heliconia. They 
are all said to love dry sunny rocky places, where the heat is 
excessive, and where they often form large thickets. 
That now figured is the least pretty of any we know. It 
was flowered by Messrs. Loddiges last December, having 
been received from Mr. Schomburgk. 
I previously possessed wild.specimens of it, and they show 
that the garden plant is quite as perfect as in its native 
.meadows. Its stem is covered with small black hairs and 
stiff-ribbed taper-pointed leaves. From the summit of the 
stem there appears a single rose-coloured flower, which is very 
fugacious. The lip is many degrees darker than the other 
parts. 
Fig. 1. represents the columns and anther ; fig. 2. exhibits 
the inside of the lip. I had no opportunity of examining the 
former. 
