This singular little bulbous rooted plant was received this year, 1803, in the month of April, amongst a number of other curious new seeds and bulbs, from the East-Indies, by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. by whom they have been communicated to different collections. Although the plant has considerable affinity with Arethusa, yet we entertain doubts whether it should not be placed to Limodorum, as it wants many of the generic characters of the former genus, and but few, and those but trivial in its correspondence, to the latter. We have, notwithstanding, given it the title under which it was sent, submitting our judgment to what we conceive better authority. There is little doubt but the plant will soon be lost in our collections, as but few of this natural order are either to be propagated or kept by any cultivation we are at present acquainted with. Our figure was taken from a plant which flowered in the hot-house of J. Vere, Esquire, Kensington Gore, in the month of July, before there was any appearance of either root or leaf from the bulb. It was in flower at the same time in the Collection of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. Wormley-Bury, Herts. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXXII. PITCAIRNIA LATIFOLIA. _Broad-leaved Pitcairnia._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX triphyllus, semisuperus. Petala 3. Squama nectarifera ad basin petalorum. Stigmata tria contorta. Capsula tria, introrsum dehiscentes. Semina alata. EMPALEMENT three-leaved, half superior. Petals three; with a scaly honey-cup at the base of the petals. Three summits twisted. Three capsules, splitting from the inside. Seeds winged. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pitcairnia foliis integerrimis, basi subspinosis. Pitcairnia with leaves quite entire, rather spiney at the base. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. One of the Petals, with its scale at the base. 3. The Chives and Pointal, cleared from the Petals. 4. The Pointal, the Summits detached, magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, cut transversely. The species of Pitcairnia here figured is a native of Jamaica, and was first introduced to Britain by Mr. A. Anderson, in the year 1785. It does not flower so readily as some of the other species, but is equally easy to increase; flourishes in rich earth, and may be kept on a shelf of the hot-house until its flower-stem appears; when, to encourage its flowering, it should be plunged in the bark-bed.--Our drawing was made, in the month of July, from a plant in the Collection of J. Vere, Esquire, Kensington Gore. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXXIII. GERANIUM BARBATUM. _Var. Minor._ _Bearded-leaved Geranium._ _Lesser Var._ CLASS XVI. ORDER IV. _MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA._ Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. MONOGYNIA. Stigmata quinque. Fructus rostratus, penta-coccus. ONE POINTAL. Five Summits. Fruit furnished with long awns, five dry berries. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.