his son (Colonial Treasurer at Labuan), in whose honour the 

 species was named by Dr. Lindley. It has also been imported 

 by Messrs. Veitch, in whose Nursery at Chelsea I first had the 

 pleasure of seeing the plant in bloom. It was not however until 

 the autumn of the year 1862, when the species flowered in Mr. 

 Rucker's collection (where our drawing was made), that any 

 adequate idea could be formed of its beauty. A full account 

 was published in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' at that time, which 

 would apply equally to Mr. Rucker's plant as it might have 

 been seen in September last, when it again burst into flower, and 

 if possible in greater beauty, and profusion than before. 



I gather from a memorandum received from Mr. Pilcher, Mr. 

 Rucker's gardener, that the Wandsworth plant is already nine 

 feet high, and that it produced six spikes, each bearing from 

 forty to fifty flowers, which lasted in perfection for a month. 

 The spikes attained to such an extraordinary length that they 

 had to be supported on props, and thus formed graceful festoons, 

 under which a person might walk ! The plant requires the heat 

 of the East Indian house, and grows so freely that it seems almost 

 to chafe at the comparatively narrow scope which the low roofs 

 of modern Orchid-houses afford it. 



Dr. Lindley, who had only seen the specimens originally sent 

 from Borneo, referred our plant to Vanda, but Reichenbach, 

 who more recently had the advantage of examining living flowers, 

 is decidedly of opinion that it falls more properly under the 

 genus Renanthera ; and as in this case I quite concur in the view 

 of the German Professor, I have not hesitated to substitute the 

 name of Renanthera for that of Vanda Zowii. — /. B. 



Descr. Steins caulescent, an inch thick, climbing to a great 

 height, and bearing numerous leathery strap-shaped obliquely- 

 obtuse leaves eighteen inches to three feet long. Floioer-spikes 

 hanging down, issuing from the upper portions of the stems, 

 slightly hairy, attaining the length of from six to twelve feet, and 

 bearing from thirty to fifty flowers. Flowers of two kinds on 

 the same spike, the lowest pair being always of a tawny-yellow 

 colour enlivened with crimson dots, while the remainder are of a 

 pale-green, almost hidden on the inner side by large irregular 

 blotches of reddish-brown. On the ordinary flowers the sepals 

 and petals are waved lanceolate and acute, but on the lower pair 

 they are shorter and blunter and more fleshy. Lip less than 

 half the length of the sepals, very fleshy, ovate, beaked with a 

 small horn in front and five parallel ridges along the disk of the 

 interior. Column very short and blunt. 



lig. 1. Seduced view of plant in flower. 2. Leaf,— nat. size. 3. Portion of 

 flower-spikes, ditto. 4. Side view of lip and column. 5. Front view of ditto. 

 6. Pollen-masses -.—haujuijied. 



