in S. insignis, there being- little difference in length between 
the length of those parts. 
If this species were to be distinguished by more popular 
characters, it might be stated to have the inflorescence of S. 
insignis, the form of S. graveolens, and the colour of S. saccata 
without its dots. If S. insignis inhabited the same country as 
S. graveolens, one might fancy the S. inodora to be a mule 
between the two. 
As the specific character of S. graveolens, given in the 
enumeration of the genus published in this work in the volume 
for 1844 now requires amendment, we repeat it here. 
S. graveolens (Lindley in Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. 125); spica 
expansä, bracteis angustis ovario vix æqualibus, floribus 
graveolentibus, sepalis lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis ovario 
dupld brevioribus, hypochilio subcompresso brevi saccato 
intus glabro intra scrotum glanduloso et lamellato anticè 
bidentato interque dentes profundè et apertè sulcato, 
epichilio subrotundo-ovato integerrimo, cornubus acumi- 
natissimis latis planis incurvis, columnä alis latissimis 
subquadratà.— — Guatemala ? —— This is a beautiful 
species with the habit of S. oculata The sepals and 
petals are of a delicate straw colour ; the lip at the base 
and the central parts of the flower generally are of a 
deep rich apricot yellow, while the horns and upper end 
of the lip are like ivory turning yellow. The odour of 
the species is so powerful that it communicates itself to 
the fingers after touching the flowers, and is extremely 
disagreeable. It varies with flowers of a deep apricot 
colour throughout, when it becomes the S. aurata of the 
gardens. Its very broad column, winged to near the 
base, so as to have almost the form of a parallelogram, 
is an important character. The lip appears at first sight 
to be quite smooth inside, but it is in reality covered 
with glands within the anterior pouch. 
