Stig. in summd columné anticum, cavum, secernens, album, orbiculato-dila. 
tatum, obliquum, lobulo decurvo infra prominulo labiatum, supra rostellatum, 
Germ. oblongum, subsemiunciale, pubescens, melino-subrubescens, obsolets 
costatum, bast semigyrato-tortum. 
Introduced into our hothouses from Jamaica about 1806, 
by the late Mr. E. I. A. Woodford, but continues a very 
scarce plant ; nor had we met with it for many years before 
this winter, when it flowered in the garden of the Horti- 
cultural Society, where the drawing was taken. 
The species comes the nearest of any to speciosa, in which 
however the leaves are undulate and not glaucous, the stem 
and flowers entirely smooth, the corolla of a much brighter 
red without the elongated pouch in front, the column 
bearded in front, the stigma without a prominent nether 
lip, and the stem at least three times shorter. 
In orchioides the stem is two feet high or more, and as 
well as the inflorescence covered with a frizzl¥ pubes- 
cence and appears before the leaves, which are glaucous and 
not undulated. The corolla terminates downwards in a 
short thick oblong pouch parallel with the front of the 
germen, which pouch is formed by the elongated bases of 
the two outer side-petals enclosing the elongated frizzly 
bearded base of the label. The column is entirely smooth 
in front; and the stigma has a prominently recurved nether 
lip. In speciosa the anther does not occupy the whole 
space in the back of the column, but in orchioides it does, 
The drawing in Curtis's Magazine has been taken from 
a plant in a very different state from the one represented in 
the present plate, if it is really of the same species. Ours 
is clearly the orchioides of Swartz. 
