first named is single-flowered and has a very different and 

 oblong staminode. 



C. californicum is confined to the northern parts of the 

 state of California, where it inhabits damp woods and 

 open swamps, growing with Darlingtonia in the valley of 

 the Sacramento river. The only other Californian species, 

 the sweet-scented G. montanum, Dongl. (G. occidentale, 

 Wats.), has not been introduced into Europe. 



For the specimen of G. californicum, here figured, I am 

 indebted to W. E. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Co. Cork, 

 with whom it flowered in May of last year. 



Desce. Glandular-puberulous. Stem one to two feet, 

 leafy throughout. Leaves three to four inches long, from 

 broadly ovate to lanceolate, acute, many-nerved. Flowers 

 in the axils of large leafy bracts, one to one and a quar- 

 ter inches across the petals, sessile ; ovary decurved. 

 Sepals pale brownish yellow ; dorsal erect, elliptic, sub- 

 acute, five-ribbed; lateral completely united into an 

 entire boat-shaped acute limb under the lip. Petals as 

 long as the sepals, spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse, dull 

 yellow. Lip rather longer than the sepals, obovoidly 

 globose, hairy at the base within, white with a little pink 

 on the inverted lips and obscurely spotted with pale brown. 

 Staminode subsessile, broader than long, reniformly ob- 

 cordate, rather longer than the small quadrate stigma. 

 Capsule two-thirds of an inch long, oblong, reflexed.— 

 J • D. IT, 



q SL 1, T «P of ovary, column, and section of Up; 2, column seen in front; 

 3, tront, and 4, back view of stamen -.-all enlarged. 



