ss PEBRUARY Ist, 1854. 
Tas. 4766. 
WARREA QuapRATa. 
Fragrant Warrea. 
Nat. Ord. Orcutpr®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char, Flores subglobosi, subregulares, mento brevi rotundato. Labellum 
continuum, indivisum, lineis elevatis carnosis in medio. Columna semiteres, 
clavata. Pollinia 4, per paria in caudiculam brevem linearem inserta, glandula 
triangulari.—Herba terrestris, pseudo-bulbosa. Folia arundinacea. Scapus radi- 
calis apice racemosus (v. uniflorus). Flores speciosi. Lindl. 
Warrea quadrata; labelli lobo medio orbiculari retuso lateralibus semiovatis 
conniventibus, appendice carnosa subquadrata sulcata apice obtuse triden- 
tata. Lindl. 
Warrea quadrata. Lindl. in Gard. Chron, 1853, p. 647. 
The only notice we have of this rare Orchideous plant is in 
the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, where Dr. Lindley _ 
has described the plant from the garden of Messrs. Jackson, of 
Kingston, from whose collection our plant was received (the 
plant here figured) in November of the same year. It has a very 
peculiar habit; the flowers are large and fragrant ; and the 
species is said to be a native of Central America, introduced by 
Mr. Warszewicz to our stoves. Dr. Lindley notices its affinity 
with Warrea discolor, “ both in habit and general form. The 
flowers however are larger and more fleshy, with no purple but 
in the centre and upper half of the lip. It is essentially known 
by the appendix at the base of the lip being nearly square, about _ 
three-toothed in front, and deeply furrowed ; that of discolor 
is uniformly digitate in all the specimens I have seen. a. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs apparently none in our plant. From a — 
few large, fleshy, fibrous roots, a cluster of eaves rises nearly : 
erect, a span or more long, very obscurely veined, oblong, 
shortly but narrowly acumimated, plain or slightly’ carinate, 
jointed upon a narrowed but conduplicate base: there a few 
brownish scales at the base of these leaves. Scapes radical, 
from within the leaves, but shorter than the leaves, erect, with i 
