flowers, white without and violet within, smelling of Wall- 

 flowers. Another has the inflorescence of a Heliconia. They 

 are all said to love dry sunny rocky places, where the heat is 

 excessive, and where they often form large thickets. 



That now figured is the least pretty of any we know. It 

 was flowered hy Messrs. Loddiges last December, having 

 been received from Mr. Schomburgk. 



I previously possessed wild specimens of it, and they show 

 that the garden plant is quite as perfect as in its native 

 meadows. Its stem is covered with small black hairs and 

 stiff-ribbed taper-pointed leaves. From the summit of the 

 stem there appears a single rose-coloured flower, which is very 

 fugacious. The lip is many degrees darker than the other 

 parts. 



Fig. 1. represents the columns and anther; fig. 2. exhibits 

 the inside of the lip. I had no opportunity of examining the 

 former. 



