One of the most exquisitely beautiful of all plants in the 

 hue and marking of its leaves, not to be imitated by art. 

 Their colour is a rich velvety green, tinned with copper, 

 and over that appears to he laid an exquisite golden net- 

 work ; the underside is quite different, of a reddish tinge, 

 with obscure yellow veins, but all that is most beautiful is 

 exposed to view. It is a native of damp, shady woods in 

 Ceylon, Amboyna, and Java, and, probably of the Indian 

 Islands generally, and if, as I think, there can be no doubt, 

 the Chrysobaphus Roxburgii of Wallich be the same, also 

 of Sylhet and Nepal. Our plants, at the Botanic Gardens 

 of Kew were received from Ceylon, through the favor of 

 P. Scheer, Esq., and kept in moist earth surrounded by 

 moss, covered with a bell-glass, they flowered vigorously in 

 May and June, 1844. 



Descr. The habit of the plant is a good deal that of 

 Goodyera, and especially G. discolor. Lower part of the 

 stem creeping, and sending out fibres. Leaves few, wholly 

 confined to the lower portion of the plant, ovate, spreading, 

 dark coppery and velvety (from the presence of numerous 

 little papillas when seen under a microscope) green : and 

 upon this is stretched the most elegant net-work, as it were, 

 of gold. Scape, or nearly leafless stem, a span high, hairy, 

 bracteated. Spike of five to six flowers, of little beauty to 

 the naked eye, as compared with the foliage, but most cu- 

 rious when they come to be examined. Sepals ovate, acute, 

 spreading, green tinged with red, clothed externally, as is 

 the ovary, with glandular hairs. Petals ovate, forming a 

 helmet by their union with the upper sepal, white tinged 

 with red. Lip large, spread open, and hanging, apparently, 

 downwards, pure white, oblong, grooved, fringed at the 

 margin with long, white cilia, and terminated by two large, 

 oblong, obtuse, spreading lobes : at the base of the label- 

 lnm is a sack or conical pouch, often cleft at the apex. 

 Column with two conspicuous marginal wings, standing 

 forward. Pollen-masses two, two-lobed, pulverous, of a 

 long club-shape, tapering, attached to a gland. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same with the Galea removed. 3. 4. Column. 

 5. Pollen-masses. 



