of the Japura in the Province of Rio Negro, flowering in 

 February. It blossomed at nearly the same time in the Chis- 

 wick Garden, and with Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collection 

 our drawing was made last August. 



It is of course, like other Surinam plants, a very tended 

 species, and requires the hottest and dampest part of a stove ; 

 but there is no Orchideous plant which is more easy to 

 cultivate, or more ready to multiply. It thrives in decayed 

 leaf-mould, better than in any other compost, and may be 

 readily know^n when out of flower, by the bright light green 

 colour of its leaves, and by its peculiarly thin pseudobulbs, 

 which often curve down upon themselves, as is represented 

 in our figure. 



If this is not equal to Lcelia in the size of its flowers, and 

 the brilliancy of its colours, it far surpasses that plant in its 

 exquisite fragrance, which is like nothing so much as newly 

 gathered cowslips and primroses. 



