fortunate. It appeared in CurTIs’s Botanical Magazine, un- 
der the name of C. indica, with references to plates and descrip- 
tions which evidently do not belong to it. Curris’s figure, 
which is really admirable, is next quoted by Mr Roscor, and 
by Mr Arron in the 2d edition of the Hortus Kewensis, un-_ 
der the name of C. coccinea. Then Mr Gaw ter gives an 
equally good delineation, at t. 576. of the Botanical Register, 
- under the appellation of C. patens (it being the C. indica, var. 
patens, of the Ist ed. of Hort. Kew.), referring to the C. patens 
of Roscoe in the 8th volume of the Linnzan Transactions, 
and to Curtis’s C. indica; and giving an excellent specific 
_ character from Roscor’s MS. Mr Gaw er, however, is af- 
terwards induced to consider, from a passage in the 10th vo- 
lume of the Linnzan Transactions, that Mr Roscor’s C. pa- 
‘tens is not, as he supposes, the original patens of Hortus Kew- 
ensis, but the C. gigantea of Repoutr’s Plantes Liliacées. 
Again, as it appears to me, Mr Gawer has given the same 
species under the name of C. limbata, and Mr iobpeuns un- 
der that of C. aureo-vitiata. 
By the view of the flower at Fig. 2., it will: be seen : thet 
the 3-cleft superior lip of the inner limb of the corolla, is in 
reality 2-cleft, one segment being again divided , then, with the | 
labellum, constituting what is so. common in the Honacgtle- 
donous Plants, a trifid limb. 
The native country of this species is samiciewn It isa 
handsomé plant, and flowers during the greater part of the year. 
The specimens here figured were drawn in February, from in- 
dividuals that blowamed:3 in the Glasger, Botame Garden. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower: aie lita: 1, Outer limb of the 
inner perianth ; c, the three divisions of the inner perianth le 
bellum ; ¢, The stamen and style. Fig. 2. Flower, with the oS 
rianth removed: a, Outer limb of the inner perianth ; ‘}, Inner limb, tu- , 
bular below, and trifid, or rather bifid, with the larger segment again 
_ divided higher up; c, The labellum. — Fig. 3. Flower ftom which every : 
| Po tsk cts ce eerrenn b, St petaloid filaments, bear- 
