The plant here described is the only certain species of 
Lissochilus; Cymbidium giganteum, however, according 
to Thunberg’s description, may also belong to the same 
genus. 
This genus in affinity comes nearest to those plants 
of South Africa at present referred to Limodorum and 
Cymbidium, namely, Limodorum barbatum, triste, longi- 
corne, and perhaps also hians of Thunberg (not however 
Satyrium hians Linn. which seems to be a Disa), Cym-_ 
bidium. pedicellatum and aculeatum. These along with 
several Indian species also referred by Swartz and Willde- 
now to Limodorum, especially L. virens, carinatum, and 
perhaps epidendroides, form a genus (Euxopuus), related on 
the one hand to Dipodium (vide prodr. flor. nov. holl. p. 
330), and essentially agreeing with Lissochilus in the struc- _ 
ture of anthera, but sufficiently different from it in its 
trilobed crested labellum, which is neither cordate nor con- 
nected at base with the column. In both these characters 
Lissochilus equally differs from Angraecum of M. du Petit 
Thouars, which has also an elongated spur and a consider- 
ably different habit. 
Among the plants at present referred to, Limodorum, 
another very distinct genus may be noticed, consisting of 
Limodorum veratrifolium, and judging from Kempfer’s 
figure, L. striatum also. This genus (Cananrae) agrees 
with Bletia in having eight pollen masses, but differs from 
it in the claw of the labellum being connected with the 
column, It is not unlikely that this may be the Cyanorkis 
of M. du Petit Thouars, who will probably hereafter -pub- 
lish it under a different name. Brown MSS. 
Our plant is one of the handsomest of its natural family, 
and until introduced from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. 
Griffin, unnoticed by any writer, and a stranger to both 
our gardens and herbariums. It flowered this summer in the 
hothouse at South Lambeth, throwing up a stem more than 
four feet high, which reminded us of that of the Tuberose, 
and producing a spike of fragrant blossom, that by suc- 
cessive expansion became nearly two feet long, and lasted — 
almost two months in beauty. 
We feel pride that this work has been the means of 
communicating the above learned and elaborate document. 
