This is asecond species of this truly splendid genus (the for- 
mer, C. labiata, having been given at t. 157. of this work) ; 
and although each individual blossom, taken separately, is nei- 
ther so large, nor so varied in colour as C. labiata, yet, from 
the circumstance of the plant producing a greater number of 
flowers, it is equally striking in appearance. 
Although recently figured by Mr LoppiGEs, it was intro- 
duced for the first time into Great Britain at the Botanic Gar- 
den of Liverpool, from the neighbourhood of St Paul’s, Brazil *, 
by Mr Wooprorpk, so long ago as the year 1810. It blos- 
somed there in 1811, and has done so every year since; and 
from it Mr SHEPHERD believes have originated all the indi- 
viduals that now exist in other collections. 
Our drawing was made from a fine specimen communicated 
‘by our liberal friends the Messrs SHEPHERDS, in the month of 
September. 
Fig.1. Lip. Fig.2. Column. Fig. 3. Anther-case from the pollen-masses, 
Fig. 4. have been removed.—Figs. 3. & 4. slightly magnified. 
* Along with pane . a elias 3 777 : 4 yl F iio , ta, st Fy ifolia, 
and Marica cerulea, 
