angular, curved. Stigma quadrate, viscid, placed in front of the column, 
and terminating in a long, spear-shaped point. 
Figures are not wanting of this truly beautiful, but in our 
collections not uncommon, orchideous plant. There exist plates 
of it in ANDREWs’ Botanical Repository, and in the Botanical 
Magazine, and also a most splendid one in the Plantes Li- 
liacées of M. Repoutr’. But in none of these are there any 
representations given of the flower and its structure, which can 
convey an idea of the characters which constitute the genus. 
It is a native of the West Indian Islands, and, it appears, 
also of the Equinoctial part of the Continent of America. It 
is easy of cultivation in a rich soil, and in the month of Ja- 
nuary enlivens the bark-pit of the stove with its charming blos- 
soms. 
TAB. 3. 
A, Spike of flowers, nat. size. Fig. 1. Side view of a flower with its brac- 
tea. Fig. 2. Back view of the same. Fig. 3. Front view, shewing 
the anterior segments of the perianth which embrace the lip. Fig. 4. 
The lip and column of fructification. _Fig. 5. Side view of the column. 
Fig. 6. Back view of the same, the pollen-mass having escaped from 
the anther, and attached itself by its points to the appendage at the 
extremity of the stigma. Fig. 7. Front view of the column; a, The 
stigma; 6, The appendage at the extremity. Fig. 8. Anther cases. 
Fig. 9. Pollen-mass. Fig. 10. One of the granules of which the pol- 
len-mass is composed.—All more or less magnified. 
TAB. 4, . 
Portion of the scape of Neoltia speciosa, with the leaves and root. Nat. size. 
