as above. Colour of the galea dull yellow, striped with brown 

 within in the mannor of many Stapelise; of the sepals and petals 

 deep umber. The flowers have a heavy odour of putrid flesh, 

 also exactly resembling that of many Stapeliee. This circum- 

 stance, taken in conjunction with the marking of the lip, is of 

 much interest ; though the occurrence of such a smell is not un- 

 known in Orchids (notably shown in Bidhophyllum Beccarii, 

 Eeichenhach /., vide Bot. Mag., t. 6567) yet it is somewhat 

 uncommon. There were no Stapeliae to be seen in the immediate 

 vicinity, and indeed I do not remember to have noticed any near 

 Ceres. The species is also structurally an interesting one. In 

 no other is the consolidation of the sepals and petals carried 

 nearly so far. Lindley, who missed seeing the petals in the 

 dried specimens, where they would easily escape detection, made 

 a new genus (Aviceps) of the plant. But Thunberg's full 

 description first made in 1807 was perfectly accurate as I pointed 

 out in 1882 (Journ. of Linn. Soc. {Botany) vol. xix, p. 237), and 

 even before this Bentham had considered that the plant could 

 not be separated from Satyrium (ih., vol. xviii, p. 357). 



