NECTARIUM turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. HONEY-CUP top-shaped, oblique and reflexed. See Pl. XIII. Vol. I. EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Epidendrum scapo tereti, lævi; foliis ensiformibus; petalis lanceolatis glabris; labio lanceolato, recurvato, maculato. Epidendrum with a round smooth stem; leaves sword-shaped; petals lance-shaped, smooth; lip lance-shaped, recurved and spotted. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The lip, detached from the flower. 2. A Flower from which the lip has been separated. The Sword-shaped-leaved Epidendrum is a native of China and Japan, was cultivated, before 1792, in the gardens of the Marchioness of Rockingham, at Hillindon, Middlesex. It has more the habit and character of Limodorum than Epidendrum, to which genus it was first placed; and, like the Epidendrum sinense of this work, Plate CCXVI. Vol. III. requires but little heat to keep it in health; preferring a sandy loam to any other matter, for its nourishment. It, like the forenamed, and several other species of this genus, or rather of the genus Limodorum, not being thick-leaved, or parasitic, where indigenous, are of consequence much easier preserved and increased than those of that description. Its flowers, which are produced in September or October, are very fragrant, particularly in the evening, continue in perfection above a month. It is propagated by parting the roots in the month of May. Our drawing was made from a plant in the Hibbertian Collection. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXLV. HYACINTHUS CORYMBOSUS. _Linear-leaved Cape Hyacinth._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX nullus. COROLLA monopetala, campanulata; limbus sexfidus, reflexus. _Nectarium_; pori tres melliferi ad apicem germinis. STAMINA. Filamenta sex, subulata, breviora. Antheræ conniventes. PISTILLUM. Germen superum, rotundo-trigonum, trisulcum. Stylus simplex, corolla brevior. Stigma obtusum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula subrotunda, triquetra, trilocularis, trivalvis. SEMINA bina (sæpius,) subrotunda. EMPALEMENT none. BLOSSOM one petal, bell-shaped; border six-cleft, reflexed. _Honey-cup_, three honied pores at the tip of the seed-bud. CHIVES. Six threads awl-shaped, shorter. Tips converging. POINTAL. Seed-bud above, round-three-cornered, three-furrowed. Shaft simple, shorter than the blossom. Summit blunt. SEED-VESSEL. Capsula roundish, three-sided, three-celled, three-valved. SEEDS in pairs (often,) roundish. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Hyacinthus corollis infundibuliformibus, corymbosis, erectis; scapo foliis linearibus breviore. Hyacinth with funnel-shaped blossoms, growing in a broad topped spike, upright; flower-stem shorter than the leaves, which are linear. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Blossom, with the Chives in their place, one Chive detached, magnified. 2. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, the Summit detached, magnified.