in one place, and that this restricted distribution is shared by 
many other Bornean plants, especially aroids; so that ina 
journey of even twenty miles one may pass through belt after 
belt of different kinds of aroids, ferns, and orchids, just as 
is the case in ascending a high mountain range. S 
I have named this interesting discovery in recognition 
of Mr. Burbidge’s eminent services to horticulture, whether 
as a collector in Borneo, or as author of ‘ Cultivated Plants, 
their Propagation and Improvement,’ a work which should 
be in every gardener’s library. The drawing here given is 
from a sketch by Mr. Burbidge, and the analyses are from 
specimens which bloomed twice in Messrs. Veitch’s nursery 
within a year after their introduction. 
Duscr. Rootstocks creeping, matted. Stems tufted, two to 
four feet high, slender, terete, leafy. Leaves four to six 
inches long; sheaths subcylindric, with short rounded — 
auricles ; blade four to six inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, 
caudate-acuminate, rather fleshy, bright green above, glossy 
on both surfaces. Panicle terminal, four to six inches long, 
many-flowered; rachis and short pedicels glabrous. Outer 
pertanth (calyx) a membranous tube, truncate and obscurely 
two-toothed. Inner perianth-tube one to one and a half inch 
long, slender, glabrous ; outer segments one and a half to two 
inches in diameter, bright orange-scarlet ; dorsal almost 
orbicular, subacute; two lateral elliptic-ovate, acuminate ; 
inner lateral segment 0. Lvp small, erect, with a long stipes 
and small oblong bifid petaloid blade, which embraces the 
appendix of the anther. Anther linear-oblong, puberulous 
at the back; connective produced into an erect lanceolate 
acute appendage as long as the anther-cells, or longer. Ovary 
pubescent, three-celled ; cells many-ovuled ; style slender, 
upper part embraced by the anther-cells ; stigma somewhat 
dilated, obliquely truncate, concave. Fruit slender, cylindric, 
two to three inches long, coriaceous, indehiscent, one-celled 
from the absorption of the septa. Seeds (unripe) fusiform, 
erect, attached to a central free three-winged column ; aril 
fleshy, laciniate, almost equalling the seed:—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower ; 2, stamen and lip; 8 and 4, side and front view of anther; 
5, limb of lip; 6, stigma; 7, outer perianth; 8, transverse section of ovary :— 
all enlarged, 
