The plant from which the drawing has been made, flow- 
ered this summer in the hothouse of Dr. Hood, at South 
Lambeth. It is a very rare species in our collections; 
and has been no where represented except in the work on 
the Coromandel Plants, by Dr. Roxburgh; where it is spoken 
of as native of the moist vallies among the hills in India, 
and as growing on the ground, not on trees, like the great 
portion of this natural order in the tropical climates. 
Introduced into our gardens by Sir Joseph Banks in 
1800, along with its congeners purpureum and citrinum, all 
natives of the same country. 
We observed two very singular crimson scars upon the 
bed of the pollen-masses, one under each of them, and 
evidently connected with the early stage of their produc- 
tion. Mr. Brown, to whom we showed them, thought them 
a remarkable appearance. 
GEODORUM was originally instituted by the late Mr. 
. Jackson, then librarian to Mr. Lambert; but has been 
subsequently remodelled by Mr. Brown. It comes near to 
Maraxis ; but the pollen-masses are there four; here two 
augmented by a lobe behind. 
