larger and brighter and very fragrant ; the spur is longer in 
proportion, flat, and truncate; the two outside petals are 
not so green, the bractes are much shorter than the germen, 
and the side lobes of the labellum reflectent. There seem 
to be other differences; but not having a fresh plant of Morio 
at hand, we cannot rely with confidence on our view of 
them. / 
_ The drawing was made at the Chelsea Garden, where 
the species of this tribe, generally reputed as scarcely to 
be reclaimed to culture, are treated by Mr. Anderson 
with as much success as those of any other vegetable fa- 
mily. Among many plants of this species which flowered 
at the same time, we perceived several varieties. ‘The two 
we have represented in the plate seemed to be, however, 
the extremes of the variation; the detached flower being 
that which receded the farthest from /Morio. 
‘Root of twin tubers. Leaves unspotted, radical ones 
5-6, multifariously patent, scarcely 3 inches long, lanceo- 
late, chagreened with minute crystalline papillz, flat, 
channelled down the middle, with distant lines; cauline 
ones 4-5 sheathing. Stem twice as high as the leaves, 
purple upwards. Flowers 10 or more, in a loose spreading. 
spike, violet-purple, very fragrant, about an inch long in- 
cluding the germen, when open resupinate. Bractes colour- 
ed, sheathing the much shorter germens. Upper lip of the 
open corolla pentapetalous, convergent, vaulted ; petals in 
two ranks, all pale purple, obtuse, 2 or 3 times shorter than 
the spur, the lateral ones of the three outermost marked 
with five greenish nerves, elliptic with unequal sides, the 
middle one oblong pointing forward arched 3-nerved ; two 
innermost. narrower, convergent, overlaid by the others. 
Label half as long again as these, broader than long, point- 
ing forwards, paler along the middle, where it is spotted with 
dark purple; 3-lobed, side-lobes dark-purple rounded out- 
wards and denticulate, middlemost a great deal smaller, 
generally retuse: spur about 3 of an inch long, about equal 
to the germen, assurgent, rose-purple, horizontally com- 
pressed, cuneately linear, truncate, unwrinkled. Germen 
Drownish red, 3 of an inch long bent towards the top. Pollen- 
masses 2, clavate, pedicled, undivided, enclosed within the 
two marginal cists of the headpiece of the column, formed 
by-the filaments and style, separated above their glandular 
base by an incomplete upright white bilaminar partition. 
