has shown, not gnly that they succeed as easily as any other 
plants from the same climate; but that, from the little 
space they occupy, they are peculiarly suited to the ‘stove, 
for which their curious structure and beauty render them 
most desirable acquisitions. We are told they should be 
planted superficially in proportionate pots of hazel-loam, 
and placed on the shelf or the flue of the hot-house, but 
never plunged into the bark-bed. 
The genus is of Jussieu’s natural order of Orchidez, re- 
arranged a few years since with great perspicuity and judg+ 
ment by the learned Dr. Olof Swartz; and still more re- 
cently revised and enlarged by Mr. Brown, in his Prodro- 
mus of the Flora of New Holland, with the accuracy for 
which he is justly praised. The bloom of this species is of a 
lemon-colour, darkening as it decays to a reddish brown; 
the spike is constantly bent on one side, and offers a cha- 
racteristic name for the species. The whole plant measures 
from one to two feet in height. It has been elaborately de- 
scribed by Swartz, among many others of the same tribe, 
in his Flora Indiz occidentalis, 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy, at Hammersmith, in lebruary last. 
a The upper part of the shaft of the fructification, showing the 4 oblong 
Pera pollen-masses, as they present themselves, om the removal of the 
idshaped moveable anther from the aperture of the cavity in which they 
have been formed: magnified. 6 The pollen-masses withdrawn from the 
cavity: magnified. c The same in a different position, showing their granu- 
late filiform pedicles: very much magnified. The moveable lidshaped 
anther, frontwise: magnified. This forms the brown spot seen at the apex 
of the shaft in the flower. e Its converse, with the base of the partitioning 
of its four cells: magnified. f Stigma: magnified, 
