zealous contributors of living plants, of whom he says : — 

 " During a number of years in which the Hon. Edward 

 Gardner (son of the late distinguished Admiral Lord 

 Gardner) lived in Nipal, as the Hon. East India Company's 

 Resident at the Court of Katmandu, he contributed greatly 

 to the riches of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, and 

 through it, to the gardens and herbariums of England. It 

 was through his local influence, and afterwards also of the 

 late Mr. Robert Stuart's, the officiating Resident, that I 

 was permitted to send permanent collecting parties into 

 that country, where they enjoyed his unceasing support 

 and encouragement ; and afterwards to visit it myself 

 during a whole year, which I spent under his friendly and 

 hospitable roof. Would that the cause of Natural History 

 could boast many such Maecenases in India and everywhere 

 else!" 



Though a well-marked species, H. Gardnerianum is 

 subject to a good deal of variation in the form and size of 

 the lip, from orange to lemon colour, and almost white 

 with a pinkish centre. The specimen here figured flowered 

 in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens in August, 1885, 

 and fruited in the following February. In the Temperate 

 House it also does well. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Stamens ; 2, ovary and staminodes ; 3, stigma ; 4, transverse section of 

 ovary ; 5, fruiting spike ; 6, cluster of seeds ; 7, single seed and aril ; 8, seed with 

 aril removed ; 9, vertical section of seed, showing embryo : — all but Jiff. 5 enlarged. 



