lassat et horridum reddit pretereuntem.” He says, it always 
grows in the highest and most inaccessible mountains, 
where the scattered trees just afford it a little shade, and 
where the soil is but scantily supplied with moisture. He 
adds that it is called by the natives Daun petola, or Petola 
leaf, on account of its resemblance to the Petola, a precious 
silken vestment of many gaudy colours. 
The beauty of the plant consists in this character, for its 
flowers are white and green, and very inconspicuous. But 
the leaves are singularly painted with golden veins upon a 
brownish purple ground, as if, in the words of Rumf, ‘‘ some 
cunning painter had traced them over with unknown cha- 
racters.” 
The plant will require the same treatment as Goodyera, 
Heemaria, Spiranthes, Pelexia, and other terrestrial Orchida- 
ceous plants of the same division of the order. 
I have it from Mr. Macrae, and Sir W. Hooker from 
Mrs. Walker, from Ceylon. 
Fig. 1. represents a flower after the sepals and petals 
have been cut off; 2. the column with the curious involute 
membranous margin; 3. the same unrolled and seen in a 
front view. 
