it " a splendid white flower, with a most extraordinary strong 

 aromatic fragrance." It is certainly very handsome and 

 sweet ; hut not so much with us as it appears to be in 

 Guatemala. 



Its aspect is not that of a Brasavola, but rather of a 

 Cattleya, to which genus it was thought that it would belong : 

 but as soon as the flower appeared it was found to be a true 

 Brasavola, with all the characters that peculiarly mark that 

 genus. Like others it has the anther-bed lacerated, but the 

 dorsal tooth is tipped with a glandular swelling. Fig. 1. re- 

 presents this ; and fig. 2. the pollen-masses, artificially sepa- 

 rated so as to show the large size of the powdery elastic straps 

 that hold them too'ether. 



This is found as easy to cultivate as any of the other Mexi- 

 can Orchidacese, requiring a damp warm atmosphere when 

 growing, and to be kept cool and dry when in a state of 

 inaction. It will succeed either suspended from the roof of 

 the house upon a block of wood, or in a well drained pot, the 

 only difficulty in its cultivation being in inducing it to blos- 

 som. Upon this subject I have received the following note 

 from Mr. Fortune, who has succeeded in making it flower 

 freely in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 



" At the base of every leaf there is a bud, and from the 

 leaf itself the flower springs, which in many instances proves 

 abortive, apparently owing to the luxuriance of the bud at its 

 base. As a proof of this — after many fruitless attempts to 

 make this plant flower — one of these buds was removed, which 

 allowed the sap intended for the nourishment of that bud to 

 go to the formation of the flower, and the result was the pro- 

 duction of the subject of the present plate. In the following 

 season the plant was covered with flowers upon the same prin- 

 ciple, though not at the expense of its buds. This was done 

 by keeping it dry and not allowing the buds at the base to 

 grow much until the flower stems were so far advanced as to 

 be out of danger." 



It is easily propagated by division. 



