of the noble collections in this country having been per- 
mitted to participate in the possession of so beautiful a 
plant. It is to be hoped that it is now before the public 
under more favourable auspices: the Horticultural Society, 
in whose Garden is the specimen from which the accom- 
panying drawing was taken, will be eager to distribute it 
as quickly as its slow growth and difficult propagation will 
permit. 
The plant in the Chiswick Garden was brought to 
England by Dr. Wallich, and presented by the Hon. Court 
of Directors of the East India Company. It is cultivated 
in the stove, in a very hot damp atmosphere, in a pot full 
of moss, suspended from the roof by a wire, and a little 
overshadowed by climbing and other plants: it flowers in 
April. 
By the kind permission of Dr. Wallich, we are enabled 
to give the following extract relating to the species, from 
Dr. Roxburgh's MS. Flora Indica :— 
** This lovely parasitical species was found growing on 
trees in the vicinity of Dacca by the Hon. Charles Andrew, 
who sent plants to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta: flower- 
ing time the hot and rainy season. It has great resemblance 
to the figures in Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus, quoted by 
Willdenow for Aerides retusum and premorsum, but the 
capsule differs from both, and, I believe, the horn and 
labellum also; however, they are certainly very nearly 
allied, and not inferior in beauty, while in flower, to any 
in the whole tribe of Orchidez.” 
** Root of several thick, fleshy, obtuse fibres, which issue 
from the stem through the sheaths of the lower leaves, 
and adhere to the tree, which gives support to the plant. 
Stems perennial, creeping, invested in the sheaths of the 
leaves. Leaves bifarious, imbricate, sheathing, recurvate, 
linear, channelled, thick, firm, and smooth ; apex obliquely 
premorse, from 6 to 12 inches long by one broad when laid 
flat. Racemes axillary or lateral, solitary, drooping, longer 
than the leaves. Flowers numerous, approximate, diverging, 
pretty large; colour a beautiful mixture of red and white 
spotted. Bracts ovate-cordate, one-flowered, embracing 
the insertion of the pedicel. Corol (calyx Swartz) five- 
petalled, upper three oblong, the middle one broader; 
