from Rio Janeiro; and flowered in Mr. Griffin’s hothouse at 
South-Lambeth in March last. : 
Bulb vound, with a leafy neck. Leaves from upright 
spreading, about 7, lorate, obtusely pointed, faintly glau- 
cous, an inch or an inch and a half broad. Scape (two in 
Succession) about 2 feet high, cylindric, with 2 obsolete 
rounded corners, glaucous, purplish at the base. Spathe 
inclining to red, a little higher than the peduncles; these 
about half the length of the corolla, and about as thick as 
a small pen, round, straight. Germen oblong, obtusely 
3-cornered, dark-green, about half an inch long. Corolla 
apple-green, bordered at the top with crimson, veined and 
partially streaked, nodding, turbinately campanulate, about 
5 inches deep, widening gradually from the base itself, se- 
miringent; segments obversely oval, lanceolate, cohering 
imbricately as far as the faucial membrane, thence detach- 
ed; 3 outermost alternate, rather longer, and as broad 
again as the others, upwards undulate, short-pointed ; up- 
per middle one pointing forwards and depressed, farther 
apart, 2 inches broad; upper lateral ones but little more 
than an inch broad, longer pointed, slanting slightly up- 
wards ; lower lateral ones similar to the upper middle one, 
_ but slanting at the top with a curve towards the lower 
middle one, which last is the narrowest of all, and points 
downwards. Faucial membrane about an inch above the 
base, scarcely half a line broad, green and crimson, finely 
denticulated. Filaments not so long as the limb, fascicu- 
late, deflectent, particoloured. Anthers obliquely incum- 
bent, dark purple; pollen cream-coloured. Style red, but 
little longer than the stamens. 
We did not perceive that the flowers, perhaps the most 
beautiful of this splendid genus, had any scent. 
