of the same generic group, so long considered as a chief 

 ornament of our stoves. We do not find the species re- 

 corded in the Kew Catalogue; but we find a specimen in 

 the Banksian Herbarium, which is stated to have flowered 

 in the garden at Kew. We believe the plant to be exceed- 

 ingly rare ^vith us, and never heard of its flowering in this 

 country, except at Kew,- till we Avere favoured with the 

 present sample by Mr. Fawkes; who had the kindness 

 to send it us from Farmley Hall, his seat in Yorkshire; 

 where it blossomed in the hothouse during the present 

 summer. 



According to Dr. Roxburgh, a native of Chittagong. 

 According to others, of Java also. We have no autho- 

 lity for the time of its introduction. 



Stems simple, upright, round, covered by the sheaths of 

 the foliage, villous at the upper part, from 5 to 8 feet high. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovately oblong, elliptical, acu- 

 minate, quite entire, smooth on the upper side, villous on 

 the under, 2 feet long, furnished with very numerous fine 

 nerves which converge at an acute angle. Petioles chan- 

 nelled at the upper side, a palm long. Raceme terminal, 

 simple, subcylindrical, spikeformed, manyflowered, a foot 

 long. Pedicles oneflowered, short, 2 or 3 lines long, nearly 

 of one length, villous. Spathe infeiior, oblongly ovate, 

 ventricose, smooth, snow-white, an inch long, 2-parted: 

 segments ovate, sharp pointed: the tips reddish. Calyx 

 superior, of one piece, tubular, gibbous below, smooth, 

 white, the depth of the spathe, surrounding the base of the 

 corolla closely, withering but persistent, trifid at the tip: 

 segments ovate, acuminate, reddish at the top. Outer co- 

 rolla of one petal, white, an inch and an half long. Tube 

 cylindrical, upright, smooth, half an inch long. Limb de- 

 flectent, 3-parted: ^egmen/* oblong, obtuse, villous on the 

 outside, silky: uppermost rather broader than the othei-s : 

 inner corolla (label) of one piece, longer than the outer one, 

 contracted at the base into a tube, adnate to the faux of 

 the outer one, thence dilated and lastly expanded into a 

 large roundish lamina or border, undulated at the edge, 

 prolonged at the top into 2 oblong lobes (4 lines long), in- 

 clined upwards ; red on the inside and sprinkled over with 

 dots and little broken yellow lines ; yellow on the outside 

 and ornamented with a few red lines. Filament 1, in- 



