Tas.’ 5¥57. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM spxctosum. 
Showy Grammatophyllum. 
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE#.—GyYNaNnpDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. GRamMATOPHYLLUM, Bl. Perianthium explanatum, patens, sepalis 
petalisque subeequalibus. Labellum cum columna articulatum, nanum, trilobum, 
cucullatum. Columna arcuata, erecta, semiteres, basi callosa. Anthera subbilo- 
cularis. ‘Pollinia 2, globosa, basi sulcata, in extremitatibus glandule arcuate 
sessilia.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. Caules simplices, incrassati. Folia line- 
aria, disticha, striata. Peduneuli radicales, longissimi, (v. terminales ?) multifiorr. 
Flores speciosissimi. Lindl. 
. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM speciosum ; scapo multifloro pseudobulbisque longissimis, 
foliis distichis patenti-recurvis basi dilatatis equitantibus, bracteis herbaceis, 
sepalis petalisque patentissimis subobovato-oblongis undulatis obtusissimis, 
labelli lobis obtusis intermedio rubro-lineato, lineis ciliatis. 
GRaMMATOPHYLLUM speciosum. Bl. Bijdr. p. 377. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 
p- 173 (in part.). Bl. Rumphia, v. 4. p. 47. 4.191. Pact. Fl. Gard. t. 69 
(imperfect specimen). 
Great was the surprise of botanists and horticulturists when 
the first knowledge of this gigantic Orchideous plant was placed 
before the European public in the ‘Rumphia’ above quoted, and 
expectations were not disappointed when the living plant was 
introduced by the late Messrs. Loddiges, and at length flowered, 
though imperfectly, in their stoves at Hackney, which happened 
in 1852, when the figure above quoted was published in Paxton’s 
‘Flower Garden.’ 
The specimen now before us exceeds in size all that was anti- 
~ eipated by the most sanguine, and this under the skilful manage- 
ment of Mr. Carson, gardener to W. G. Farmer, Esq., of Non- 
such Park, Ewell, in October, 1859. It was taken from a plant 
of which the old pseudobulbs, or stems, were from nine to ten 
feet long, and the scape six feet, throwing out its noble flower- 
ing scape from the base. The species is a native, Blume tells us, 
of Java and other islands in the Indian Ocean (Mr. Finlayson 
detected it in Cochin China), and from its vigorous vegetation, 
ganvary Ist, 1860. 
