this plant with their ‘bouillon’ to produce a more 
abundant flow of milk after child-birth. 
When figuring C. longibracteata, Lindl. (t. 7909) we 
gave some particulars of the genus. Since then Dr. F. 
Krianzlin has completed a monograph of the species 
(Orchidearun Genera et Species, vol. ii. pp. 143, tt. 14), of 
which he describes eighty-four. It is curious that the 
name Chlorea does not occur in the Dictionaries: of 
Gardening, although C. longibracteata was in cultivation 
in 1837, and C. virescens, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. vol. xxxi. t. 49) 
in 1845. : 
Descr.—A terrestrial herb, varying from one to three 
feet in height. Roots long, fleshy. Stem erect, glabrous. 
Leaves chiefly basal, oblong or lanceolate, acute, the 
largest eight inches long and one inch wide, sheathing and 
imbricate at the base. Scape furnished with distant, 
ovate or broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate scales, one 
to four inches long. Racemes few- or many-flowered ; 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the shortly 
pedicellate ovary. lowers white, with numerous very 
minute, green dots near the sides of the lip and base of the 
petals, and a large orange and brown blotch at the base 
of the column. Dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse, about an inch 
and a half long and seven lines wide; lateral sepals 
obovate-oblong from a linear base, slightly undulate, 
cochleate, and thickened at the apex, about as long as the 
dorsal and slightly narrower. Petals elliptic, obtuse, 
three-quarters the length of the dorsal sepal, sparingly 
warted on the longitudinal nerves. Labellum contracted 
at the base, widely oblong or nearly orbicular above, 
entire below, crispate-dentate above, with seven or nine 
fimbriate lamelle confluent towards their base, and a 
few papilla on the under surface towards the margins. 
Column about one inch long.—W. B. H. | 
Fig. 1, column and anther; 2, pollinia :—both enlarged. 
