foot-stalks. Ovary bent down at right angles to the foot-stalk. 
FLowers three inches in diameter, the five spreading divisions nearly 
alike in form and colour, being lanceolate, pointed, narrowed at 
the base, ofa pale colour but marked with claret spots, the lateral outer 
ones more attenuated, and joined together at the base, the upper 
outer one longer and narrower, the inner ones somewhat twisted at 
their extremity. LaBELLUM narrow, shorter than the other divisions, © 
the lower part or hypochilium linear with an oblong swelling at the 
base, the central portion or metachilium rather broader, and bearing 
on the upper surface a dozen protuberances pinnately arranged, blunt 
and hooked at the end; the labellum terminates in a narrow lanceo- 
late epichilium, the borders turned upwards, the whole more or less 
marked with claret spots. CoLumnN nearly the length of the divisions 
of the perigon, very much curved inwards and thickened at the 
extremity, almost entirely of a vinous colour, the clinandrium having 
on each side an ovate auricle. 
Porutar AND Geocgrapuicat Notice. The little genus Cycno- 
ches, remarkable for the graceful swan-like inflection of the column, 
now consists of four species, natives of that hotbed of Orchidacee, the 
damp tropical regions in the north-east of the South American conti- 
nent. The new species now figured is chiefly remarkable for the 
appendages of the labellum, called by some, glands, but the nature 
and use of which are as puzzling as that of many other of the singu- 
larities in the flowers of this extraordinary tribe. It appears also to 
be one of the finest of the genus, from the great length and number 
of flowers of the raceme. 
InTRopuCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLTurRE. We are indebted to 
John Willmore, Esq, of Oldford, Staffordshire, for the specimen of 
this splendid new Cyenoches, from which our drawing was made. Our 
~ readers will appreciate the progress of floriculture when they are told 
that the very plant now figured, which flowered in the above gentle- 
man’s Orchidaceous house, under the assiduous management of Mr. 
Williams, in December, 1839, was found luxuriating on its native hills 
of La Guyra, with Cattleya Mossei and numerous other species, {in 
the April preceding, by Mr. Charles M* Kenzie, and sent home to his 
spirited employers, the Messrs. Low, of Clapton Nursery, from whom 
it was obtained by Mr. Willmore. It requires but the usual treatment 
of its genus—rough peat and potsherds, and moist heat when growing. 
ERIVATION OF THE NAMES, 
Cycnocues, from rvxvog a swan, the column oo compared to a swan’s neck. 
Macunata spotted. 
