It is found to bear the hottest and dampest stove, but like 

 all the terrestrial species requires a season of repose. 



Beautiful as is this plant it must be equalled in the 

 showiness of its blossoms by the Maxillaria liliacea, or 

 Azuzena del Monte of the people of Valladolid, in the 

 neighbourhood of which town it growls beneath tlie shade of 

 trees. This plant is described as having a scape about a 

 foot high, terminated by a thryse of snow-white flowers, whose 

 segments are variegated with purple lines, and whose lip is 

 spotted at the base with yellow. It is also in all probability 

 a Govenia, and may be named G, liliacea. 



Of a similar noble aspect is a species collected in Mexico 

 by Count Karwinski, near Atotovilco el Chico, in a cool 

 climate, flowering in June and July. Specimens of this 

 plant, belonging to the Royal Herbarium of Munich, are 

 now before us. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, tapering to 

 each end, especially to the point, a foot long and about 5 

 inches wide, and very like those of Govenia siiperha, except 

 that they are smaller. The stem is stated to be five feet 

 high. It is terminated by a short and very dense headed 

 raceme of large flowers, to each of which is an oblong obtuse 

 bract, not quite so long as the ovary. The raceme is 4 

 inches long, and as much broad at the base. In the form 

 of the flowers it resembles Govenia superha very much, but 

 they are three times as large ; the sepals are an inch and 

 half long and the other parts in proportion. The lip has an 

 ovate form, but is not cordate at its base, it is not quite 

 half so long as the sepals, and is marked tow^ards its end 

 with largish round very dark dots. The colour of the flowers 

 cannot be ascertained from the dried specimen, but seems to 

 have been pale and uniform ; probably pale yellow. This 

 plant may be thus distinguished — 



G. capltata ; labello ovato obtuso, racemo capitato, bracteis oblongis obtuslus- 

 culis, foliis oblongis acuminatis basi angustatis scapo multo brevioribus. 



