for they require that water should frequently be poured 
_ over them during the voyage. Also that the Central 
_ American and Roraima (Guiana) species are comparatively 
much easier of importation: = es 
Plants of U.janthina were received at Kew from Messrs. 
Sander in 1892. Mr. Watson informs me its first formed 
leaves were twice as large as those here figured. It 
al 
flowered for the first time in Europe in a stove in the Ro 
Gardens, in July, 1895, the scape being eighteen inche 
long. ? . ae 
3 Spey oo two to four inches in diameter, reniform, 
quite entire, undulate, suddenly contracted at the cordate 
_ base into a slender dull red petiole four to six inches long, 
pale green on both surfaces ; nerves flabellate, very obscure, 
_ Scape twice as tall as the petiole, green, about six-flowered, 
naked, except for one to two lanceolate, green bracts 
about half an inch long. Flowers racemed; pedicels 
slender, one to one and a quarter inches long; bracts 
h shorter than th els, erect, herbaceous, green, 
yes: lat lateral half as long as the — 
a ped, obtuse, her- — 
broad, quit 
_ Spur elongate, incurved 
lum, and protruded shortly beyor it. Ovary ovoid; pr 
duced into a short, stout style, which is dilated into a 
lobed stigma, with a short, incurved, spur-like upper lobe, 
and a broad, undulate lower one.—J.D.H. 
. 
Fig. 1, Portion of lower lip of corolla, with stamens; 2, ovary :—Both 
enlarged. : ; 
