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 er gives an 
equally good delineation, at t. 576. of the Botanical Register, 
under the appellation of C. patens (it being the C. indica, vay. 
patens, of the Ist ed. of Hort. Kew.), referring to the C. patens 
of Roscor in the 8th volume of the Linnean Transactions, 
and to Curris’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 Linnean 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 LoppiceEs un: 
der that of C. aureo-vitiata. to i 
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 2-cleft, one segment being again divided ; then, with the 
Jabellum, constituting what is so common in the Monocotyle- 
donous Plants, a trifid limb. _ i 
The native country of this species is unknown*. Itis 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 ; 4, Outer limb of the 
inner perianth ; c, the three divisions of the inner perianth ; d, The la- 
bellum ; e, The stamen and style. F ig. 2. Flower, with the outer pe- 
rianth removed: a, Outer limb of the inner perianth ; 6, 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 ; 6, The petaloid filaments, bear- 
ing the lateral anther ; c, The style with its small transverse stigma at 
the top.—More or less magnified. 
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* Mr Roscog, in his fine work on the Monandrian Plants, says that the C. patens — 
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