hood and a suppressed stamen (of which there is no visible 

 evidence), and the innermost series by the horizontal spiral 

 anther and two suppressed stamens (of which there is no 

 visible evidence). This explanation is ingenious, and is pro- 

 bably substantially correct. 



C. Jacohianum is a native of Ecuador, from which it was 

 introduced by Mr. Linden, who exhibited it in full foliage 

 at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, and sent to England the 

 flower here figured. It has a faint sweet odour, not to be 

 compared with that of the C. odoratissimum. 

 ( Descr. A stemless epiphyte. Leaves numerous, spread- 

 ing, three to four feet long, sheathing at the broad base, 

 then oblong-lanceolate, four to six inches broad, deep green, 

 edged with brown. Peduncles axillary, stout, suberect, as thick 

 as the finger, white tinged with pink or purple, a foot long, 

 bearing an immense panicle of flowers. Bracts opposite and 

 whorled, oblong, concave, three to four inches long. Branches 

 of panicle stout, four to six inches long, bearing at their 

 apices short scorpioid, deflexed cymes ; pedicels three-quar- 

 ters of an inch long. Flowers two inches to two inches and 

 a half in diameter. Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, purple- 

 pink Petals obovate, longer than the sepals, of a fine vio- 

 let-blue, fringed with soft purple hairs. Staminodes three, 

 two lateral linear, purple, fringed ; third a tuft of yellow 

 hairs at the back of the staminal column. Staminal column 

 (or hood) pedicelled, petaloid, blade concave, with involute 

 margins, ovoid, produced into two long tubular points, being 

 cleft through the middle to the base, enclosing three anthers. 

 Anthers spirally twisted; one horizontal at the base of the 

 hood, two vertical, one in each involute half of the hood. 

 Ovary ovoid, three-celled; style filiform, curved; stigma mi- 

 nutely three-lobcd.— J. BE 



Fig. 1 Eeduced figure of whole plant. 2 and 3. View of staminodes, 

 staminal hood and ovary. 4. Vertical section of lower part of staminal 

 hood, showing the anthers:— all hut Fi 9 . 1 magnified 



