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* GRAMMATOPHYLLUM multiflorum. 
Many-flowered Letter-leaf. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ VANDEAZ. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Blume; Perianthium explanatum, patens, 
sepalis petalisque subeequalibus. Labellum cum columná articulatum, nanum, 
trilobum, cucullatum. Columna arcuata, erecta, semiteres, basi callosa. An- 
thera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, globosa, basi sulcata, in extremitatibus glan- 
dulæ arcuatee sessilia. Herba epiphyta, caulescens. Caules simplices, incras- 
sati. Folia linearia, disticha, striata. ^ Pedunculi radicales, longissimi, (v. 
terminales ?) multiflori. Flores speciosissimi. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 173. 
G. multifforum ; racemo erecto longissimo multifloro, bracteis ovato-oblongis 
obtusis squamiformibus dorso convexis, sepalis oblongis obtusiusculis planis, 
petalis acutis subconformibus angustioribus, labelli trilobi pubescentis medio 
hirsuti lobo intermedio plano oblongo rotundato lateralibus erectis subfalcatis, 
jugo in medio carnoso elevato ad basin lobi intermedii interrupto in lamellas 
4 simplices cis apicem evanescentes producto, columnee margine supra basin 
elevato flexuoso incurvo foveam altam obconicam circumdante. Botanical 
Register, 1835, misc. no. 80. 
For this noble Orchidaceous plant now figured we are 
indebted to the exertions of Mr. Hugh Cuming, who dis- 
covered it in Manilla, and sent it to his customers in England. 
I am not aware of its having flowered anywhere except with 
Mr. Bateman, who sent me in May, 1838, the specimen, of 
which the annexed plate represents the upper part; the 
Whole raceme was upwards of two feet long, and bore forty- 
eight flowers, each about an inch and half in diameter. 
. The plant has very much the aspect of a gigantic Cymbi- 
dium, with long coriaceous leaves, distichous at the base, 
and in fact there is not much to separate Grammatophyllum 
* From ypa ppa a letter, and guMo» a leaf, in allusion to the marking of the 
leaves of the flower. 
December, 1839. 2a 
