feet or more high, and thicker than a swan’s quill, terete, 
purplish below, green above, where it throws out three to 
four long and more or less patent branches, which bear nu-| 
merous flowers subtended by rather large, linear-subulate 
bractee. Sepals or three outer segments of the perianth, 
ovate, acute, the two lower ones bearing in the inside a 
central, pale lamella for nearly its whole length ; petals, or 
two inner segments of the perianth of the same size and 
shape with the rest, all connivent and of an uniform pale 
rose colour, both within and without. Labellum standing 
forward within the petals, and rather longer than they, three- 
lobed, the disk with five yellow, parallel, somewhat wavy 
lamine, the two lateral lobes curved upwards, large, pur- 
plish rose-coloured, yellow at the base, streaked with purple 
lines, somewhat ovate in shape, middle lobe dilated at the 
extremity and much crisped, deep purple. Column linear, — 
almost semicylindrical, incurved. Anthers with eight cells | 
and eight ovate, waxy, deep yellow pollen masses, attached — 
to a common, pulverulent stalk. Germen clavate, rather — 
short, slightly twisted. si 
My kind and obliging friend, Mr. Henry Suepnern, has, — 
I think, correctly considered this as distinct both from — 
Bieta verecunda and Brevi florida. Independent of the ~ 
pale colour of the flower, the segments of the perianth are — 
all remarkably acute, and the outer and lower ones are — 
always furnished with a strong central lamina. The brac- — 
teas, too, are, comparatively large, and the scape is very — 
tall, and divided upwards ito long branches. Brett — 
verecunda and Burerta florida, its nearest allies, are natives — 
of the West Indies ; this of South Carolina, whence it was — 
‘ directl received at the Liverpool Botanic Garden. It se E 
possibly be the B. (Cymbidium) verecundum of the North — 
American authors : and it is, I think, certainly, the Limo- — 
porum altum of Jacquin; there the petals are acute, and © 
the elevated line or lamina is distinct y represented in the | 
figure. “ 
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: Fig. 1. Flower with the Perianth f d ” Phe 
Pollen-masses : tatignisfied. orced back. 2. Lip. 3. Column. # 4 
