plant, richly coloured in the scales and bracts of the lower part 
of the stem and of the scapes, and in the large, handsome, orchi- 
deous-like flowers. We may observe, that the leaf figured in the 
‘ Journal’ is much larger than any upon our growing plant. It 
may be a luxuriant state, or it may be the leaf of another kind, 
supposed to belong to the same by Dr. Daniell; for of this the 
flowers not unfrequently appear before the leaves, and then col- 
lectors cannot be too careful to see that the leaves and flowers, 
and fruit too, all belong to the same species. | 
Descr. The stems, two feet or more long, grow clustered and: 
branching, with suckers, at the root; scaly below, with large, 
reddish, imbricating, membranaceous scales. Leaves, the largest 
of them in our plants scarcely a span long, oblong-lanceolate, 
sharply acuminated, striated with oblique parallel nerves. The 
short scape proceeds from the very base of the stems, and is 
sheathed with large, red, boat-shaped scales, from within which 
appear in succession from three to five flowers. These latter 
are large and richly coloured ; the three outer sepals fine red ; the 
spreading /abellum whitish, tinged with rose-colour and yellow. 
_ Fig. 1. Ovary and inner scales :—magnified. 
