quoted, I am satisfied that they are but varieties of each 
other, and the name of moschatum, as undoubtedly thé old- 
est, should be preserved to it: although the odour of musk 
is rather problematical, Liypiey says, “ the blossoms ex- 
hale a faint smell resembling that of Rhubarb, as I learn 
from Dr. Waxuicn’s MSS.” We had compared the odour 
of a fine specimen which was flowering at Wentworth to 
that of the yellow Water-Lily (Nupuar lutea) ; while the 
perfume diffused by the individual plant now before us, 
reminds us of the sweet-scented Wood-ruff (AsPERULA odo- 
rata). The leaves are undoubtedly extremely variable m 
form ; linear-oblong in our specimen of the “‘ Exotic Flora;’ 
oblong in that represented by Waxuicu ; almost ovate 10 
the present plant. The perianth of the flower is also more 
or less distinctly reticulated, and the labellum extraordina- 
rily changed in colour, by age, when the whole, except the 
very downy apex, becomes suffused with a deep crimson 
lint. The plant is a native of Pegu, Ava, and Sylhet. 
Descr. The flowering-stem of this noble plant in Mr, 
Horsrauz’s Collection, measures five feet three inches high, 
the side shoots are still taller, one of them six feet three — 
inches, terete, striated, jointed, leafy to the top. Leaves 
alternate ; in our specimen ovato-oblong, glossy, distichous, 
obscurely nerved. Raceme from the side of the stem, eight 
to ten inches long, pendent, bearing six to eight or mine 
Jlowers. Bracteas oblong, much shorter than the germen. 
Flowers large, tawny, suffused with rose-colour. Sepals 
and petals reticulated ; the form oblong, the latter broadly- 
ovate, widely spreading. Lip slipper-shaped, tapering Int? 
a claw, the sides remarkably involute, outside and particu” 
larly above the middle from the base, pubescenti-hirsute, 
within at the base, are about six elevated lines, and at the 
sides of the base, on each side, a deep blood-coloured spot, 
the margin ciliated. Column very short, decurrent, so that 
the base of the labellum forms a kind of obtuse sp¥: 
Anther flattened at the top, purple. Pollen-masses of four 
glands, in two parallel pairs. 
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Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip: slightly magnified. 
