transmitted by him to our excellent correspondent, Max 

 Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe, who sent bulbs to the Boyal Gardens 

 in November last. These flowered in June of the present 

 year, and are here figured. The flowers open almost in pairs 

 at a time, and last for several days in perfection. As a 

 species it is very near the C. venustus, Benth. {Bot. Beg., 

 t. 1669); but the plant is much smaller, leaves narrower, 

 flowers much smaller, with only a single purple spot on 

 the sepals above the nectary, and no purple band below the 

 nectary ; the sepals, too, are not green. 



Descr. Bulbs ovoid. Scapes four to seven inches high, slender, 

 erect or inclined, terete, leafy. Leaves very narrow, one-eighth 

 to one-sixth of an inch, sheathing, glaucous-green, gradually 

 narrowed from the sheath to the tip, rounded on the back, very 

 concave in front ; margins incurved. Spathes like the leaves, 

 hardly exceeding the flowers. Flowers two inches and a half 

 in diameter when fully expanded ; peduncles yellow-green. 

 Sepals ovate -lanceolate, acuminate, recurved, concave, white, 

 with a broad purple-brown streak on the back, tips pink. 

 Petals broadly obovate-cuneate, apiculate, obscurely erose, con- 

 cave at the base, gibbous at the back, reflexed from above 

 the middle when fully expanded, white, with a single purple 

 blotch above the nectary ; nectary semicircular, green, sur- 

 rounded with a pale yellowish blotch, and some slender 

 filamentous hairs. Anthers linear-oblong, yellow. Ovary 

 green, linear-oblong, style very short, stigmas short, recurved. 

 — /. B. H. 



Pig, 1, Base of petal and nectary; 2, ovary: — both magnified. 



