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. Curtis's figure, 
which is really admirable, is next quoted by Mr Roscoe, and 
by Mr Aiton in the 2d edition of the Hortus Kewensis, un- 
der the name of C. coccinea. Then Mr Gawler 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 1st ed. of Hort. Kew.), referring to the C. patens 
of Roscoe in the 8tli volume of the Linnaean Transactions, 
and to Curtis's C. indica ; and giving an excellent specific 
character from Roscoe's MS. Mr Gawler, however, is af- 
terwards induced to consider, from a passage in the 10th vo- 
lume of the Linnaean Transactions, that Mr Roscoe's C. pa- 
tens is not, as he supposes, the original patens of Hortus Kew- 
ensis, but the C. gigantea of Redoute's Pla7ites Liliacees. 
Again, as it appears to me, Mr Gawler has given the same 
species under the name of C. limhata, and Mr Loddiges un- 
der that of C. aureo-vittata. 
By the view of the flower at Fig. 2., it will be seen that 
the 3-cleft superior lip of the inner limb of the corolla, is in 
reality 2l-cleft, one segment being again divided ; then, with the 
labellum, constituting what is so common in the Monocotyle- 
donous Plants, a trifid limb. 
The native country of this species is unknown *. It is a 
handsome plant, and flowers during the greater part of the year. 
The specimens here figured were drawn in February, from in- 
dividuals that blossomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower: a, Outer perianth; b, Outer limb of the 
inner perianth ; c, the three divisions of the inner perianth ; d, The la- 
bellum ; e, The stamen and style. Fig. 2. Flower, with the outer pe- 
rianth removed : a, Outer limb of the inner perianth ; h, Inner limb, tu- 
bular below, and trifid, or rather bifid, with the larger segment again 
divided higher up ; c, The labellum. Fig. 3. Flower from which every 
thing is removed, but a, the labellum ; h, The petaloid filaments, bear- 
ing the lateral anther ; c, The style with its small transverse stigma at 
the top.— More or less magnified. 
* Mr Roscoe, in his fine work on the Monandrian Plants, says that the C. patens 
has been received from the Island of St Helena, where it is probably indigenous. 
