or less elegantly spotted with purple, and striped near the
mouth, clothed with very long spreading crooked white
hairs. Lobe o f the Style large, cordately elliptic, obtuse,
more or less spotted, keeled inside : side lobes short, bluntly
rounded, fleshy, each producing an anther. Style bent inwards.
Stigma large, fleshy, orbicular, fimbriately crenu-
late.
The present beautiful white variety of this species was
introduced from North America by Mr. G. Charlwood, at
the same time as C. arietinum, and from a plant flowered
by him our drawing was made last Summer. We had never
before seen or heard of a white variety, so that it is a very
rare plant; the flower of the common variety, given at the
bottom of the plate, was also from one of his plants, and at
the same time he had in flower C. humile, C. parviflorum,
and C.pubescens, and many other Orchideous plants; also
different species of Sarracenia, and other plants, that he received
at the same time; and plants of any of them may
be received from him, by sending an order to 146, Drury-
lane : the present species succeeds best in a light soil, consisting
chiefly of decayed leaves and rotten branches of
trees, and should be planted in a sheltered situation ; and
we have no doubt but it would succeed well in a shady
wood, under the shelter of trees, where it would most probably
naturalize itself by seeding.
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1. Labellum o f the white variety spread open, to show the hairy inside and
the red spots. 2. Tlie large cordate lobe o f the Style. 3. The two side lobes to
which the two Stamens are fixed. 4. The large fleshy orbicular Stigma^ front
view. 5. Back view o f the same.