The drawing was taken in December last, in the hot- 

 house at the extensive and well-ordered botanical establish- 

 ment of Cointesse de Vandes, at Bayswater, from a plant 

 which flowered probably for the first time in Europe, and 

 had been raised from seed received from Dr. Wallich. Two 

 stems were produced, each nearly ten feet high, termi- 

 nated by a spike of cream-coloured flowers with red fila- 

 ments. They did not appear to us to have any scent, while 

 those of speciosum are said to be very fragrant. 



" Lower leaves elliptically lanceolate, upper oblongly 

 lanceolate, all with a subulately filiform earlier withering 

 point. Spike 6 inches long: jlower-fascicles apart, most 

 frequently in threes, spreading, 3-flowered. Germen vil- 

 lous. Calyx spathelike, scariose, furred. Tube of corolla 

 cylindrical cream-coloured, outer limb 3-parted, with nar- 

 row linear pointed segments, inner with cuneately linear 

 ones and slightly widened slanting apex : foot of the label 

 widely linear, blade of an ovate circumference, with semi- 

 ovate bluntish lobes. Filament longer than the label : anther 

 linear, bifid at the base with poUiniferous lobes. Stigma 

 cyathiform (long-cupped) undivided fringed. Barren sta- 

 mens 2, very short, subcylindrical, near." From the latin 

 of Mr. Brown. 



