from the Cape of Good Hope. 311 



Ophrys Volucris. Lin. suppl. 403. 

 Ophrys triphylla. Thunb. prod. 2. 



Bulb undivided, ovate, beset with fibres, about the size of a 

 large pea. Stem round, fleshy, brittle, smooth, leafy, a span 

 high, green. Leaves on the stem, three, alternate, stem-clasp- 

 ing and subcucullate, broad-ovate, obtuse, nerved, uprightly 

 spreading, the lowermost leaf on the root, the largest about 

 three inches long ; the centre one (on the middle of the stem) 

 about an inch long; uppermost very small, the length of a finger- 

 nail. Flowers of a whitish green, about the length of a man's 

 finger. Srac^es broad-lanceolate, pointed, green. CoroWa sub- 

 nngent, five-petalled : casque formed of the topmost linear ob- 

 tuse almost upright petal and the two lateral inner ones, which 

 are obovate, rounded at the end, upright, indented with an outer 

 very broad inflected lobe, and an inner one which is slightly 

 attached to the topmost petal : the two outer lateral petals ovate, 

 pointed, concave, vertical : Label inserted near the base of the 

 style, hastate, with the lateral lobes channelled, and, as well as 

 the front one, pointed and spreading. Anther adnate to the 

 style above the label : cells at the side of the style, diverging, 

 oblong. Style short, widened at the top, indented : stigma at 

 the back of the style. 



The two figures now published conclude the valuable series 

 of drawings of Orchidese for which we are indebted to Sir 

 Joseph Banks. 



Art. IX. Description of the Royal Gardens of Lahore. In 

 a Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science, 

 Literature, and the Arts, from Captain Benjamin Blake. 



. of the Bengal Army. 



Sir, 

 Although I am aware that two or three descriptions of 

 Shah Leemar (or Royal Oriental Gardens,) have at divers times 

 appeared, such as those by Foster in his Travels through Cash- 

 mere,— YtinkVin in his Present State of Dilhee, and Elphinston's 



