some time since spoke of it thus: — ** When Mr. Ross, the 
collector to George Barker, Esq. of Birmingham, was in the 
neighbourhood of Valladolid, in Mexico, there was brought 
to him some masses of a plant reported to he of great beauty. 
They arrived safely in England, and one of them has at last 
flowered, proving to be this species ; a most extraordinary 
plant, of large size, of a stately habit, with a very delicious 
fragrance, although powerful, but with no brilliant colours to 
render it what we call handsome. Its flowers are three inches 
in diameter, pale lemon-colour, fleshy, rather globular, but so 
distorted by the complete dislocation of all the parts, that it 
would be difficult to ascertain their real nature, if it were not 
for the token given by the labellum. The latter has a deep 
brown streak drawn down its middle, and covers over the 
column like a hood. The leaves of this plant are about three 
feet long, narrow, deep green, with a very fine glaucous bloom 
upon their underside. It is worthy to be associated with even 
Sobralia macrantha in the choicest of all collections of these 
plants.” 
Fig. I . represents the lip ; c 2. the column ; 3. gland, cau- 
dicula, and pollen-masses; 4. a pollen-mass seen from behind. 
With regard to its cultivation, it is a stove-plant, which 
should be potted in a compost of turfy heath-mould, mixed 
with a portion of small potsherds Water should be liberally 
given in fine weather, during the summer, and the tempera- 
ture kept as high as 80° by day, and 70° by night. As the 
season of rest advances, watering should gradually be dis- 
pensed with, so that in winter it may be treated like a Cata- 
setum, that is to say, have little or no water at all for a few 
weeks, while the temperature is allowed to fall to 38° by day, 
and 30° at night. As the operation of watering is gradually 
diminished in autumn, so it should be increased in spring, 
according to the state the plant may be in ; and the house 
should be slightly shaded in bright sunny days. 
The following are the specific characters of all the species 
at present known to us. 
MORMODES. 
1. M. atropurpureum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1861.); racemo 
