night (like many other plants of a greenish or yellowish- 
white colour) it yields a very powerful odour, which he 
compares to that of the White Lily. To us, even by day, 
there is a faint smell resembling Cucumber. Though a 
native of Martinique, Jamaica, and, probably, many other 
of the West Indian Islands, it does not appear to have been 
long introduced to our gardens, since it has no place in the 
Hortus Kewensis ; and it has been figured only in Loppicss’ 
Botanical Cabinet of all our Botanical periodical publica- 
tions. At the Glasgow Botanic Garden, we received plants 
of it from Messrs. SHepuerps of Liverpool, which flowered 
in November, 1833. 
Descr. Stems about a foot high, much compressed up- 
wards, leafy, bearing four to five elliptical, oblong, coriace- 
ous, almost veinless, obtuse, or even retuse leaves. From 
the extremity of the stem arises a single flower, or if more, 
(according to Mr. Loppices) they follow each other in suc- 
cession. Sepals and petals almost exactly resembling each 
other, linear-acuminate, patent, very long, and of a pale, 
greenish-yellow colour. Labellum white, with two yellow 
glands at the base, attached to the cylindrical, elongated, 
fy yellowish-green column, three-lobed, the two lateral 
obes ovate, obtuse, quite entire, and in part closing over 
the extremity of the column, intermediate lobe very long — 
and setaceous. At the extremity of the column are two lateral 
and one dorsal serrated processes, within which the anther 
is sunk: this is hemispherical, white, fleshy, compressed, 
with two teeth in front, and a deep furrow on the top, so as 
to appear didymous. Cells four, their margins brown and 
membranaceous. 
Fig. 1. Back view of the Column and Labellum. 2. Labellum separated 
from the Column. 3. Extremity of the Column. 4. Inside view of the 
Anther-Case. 5. Pollen-Masses :—fig. 2—5. magnified. 
