Tas. 5332. 
NEPHALAPHYLLUM putcurum. 
Beautiful Cloudy-leaf. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE”.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala et petala linearia, patentissima v. reflexa. Ladellum cal- 
caratum, integerrimum, liberum, linea media elevata; limbo petaloideo cum co- 
lumna parallelo. Columna semiteres. Anthera carnosa, triangularis, bilocularis. 
Pollinia 8, subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres, subcaulescentes, glabre ; foliis ovatis 
petiolatis plicatis, supra nebulosis subtus purpurascentibus ; pedunculo terminali 
multifloro ; floribus pedicellatis. Blume. ‘ 
NEPHALAPHYLLUM pulchrum ; floribus dense spicatis, labelli limbo obovato re- 
tuso lineis tribus elevatis versus apicem subulato-papillosis. 
NEPHALAPHYLLUM pulchrum. Bl. Bijdrag. p. 372; Tabellen, 32. Lindl. Gen. et 
Sp. Orchid. p. 24. Reichenb. Xenia Orchid. v. 1. p. 216. t. 88. f. 1. 
A rare and very little known Orchideous plant, first detected 
by Blume in Java (on Mount Salak), and since by Zollinger. It 
has now been introduced to our gardens by Messrs. Low, of 
Clapton, by whom we were favoured with the flowering specimen 
here represented in May, 1862. A second species, described by 
Blume, is V. tenviflorum ; and Reichenbach is disposed to con- 
sider Cytheris cordifolia, Lindl., from Sylhet (Wallich), as a 
third species. The habit of the genus and the marking of the 
foliage remind one strongly of the now well-known genus 4u@ec- 
tochilus, and both the genera are terrestrial. : 
Descr. Stem ascending, branched, about a span high, with a 
few stout vermicular roo/s, partially clothed with membranous, 
Sheathing scales. Leaves two in our plant, petiolate, sabmem- 
branaceous, cordato-ovate, acute, five- to seven-nerved, reticulated 
with veins, yellowish-green, slightly tinged with purple (more so 
beneath), and clouded with irregular spots of darker green. Pe- 
duncle terminal, sheathed with dracts at the base, erect, short, 
few- (four to six-) flowered. Flowers in a lax short spike. Sepals 
AUGUST IsT, 1862. 
