having been sent thither by Mr WiEs from Jamaica. The 
colour of the flower is much brighter than that of the flowers 
of this species figured in the. Botanical Register, and the 
leaves are less evidently striated. 
PLUMIER’s figure, above quoted, represents the same spe- 
cies in all probability, but the bulb and leaves have there the 
appearance of being very much striated ; the flowers, too, are a 
good deal larger. It seems, therefore, to be an inhabitant of 
the continent of America as well as of Jamaica. 
Fig. 1. Lip and column of the flower. Fig. 2. Column, side view. Fig. 3: 
Column from which the anther-case is removed, shewing the situation 
of the pollen-masses. Fig. 4. Anther-case. Fig. 5. Pollen-masses, un- 
der side.—-All more or less magnified. 
