Island of Borneo, and leaves collected by him are preserved 
in the Lindley Herbarium of Orchids, now at Kew ; but it 
was the celebrated traveller and botanist, Odoardo Beccari, 
who first obtained flowering specimens, which led to the 
determination of its genus, and to its being described by 
Reichenbach. Itis singular that the Malayan Islands should 
present three of the largest flowered and most foetid plants 
in the world—this, the Rafflaria of Sumatra, and the 
wonderful Amorphophallus Titanum, discovered in this last- 
named island by M. Beccari. 
The specimen here figured was kindly communicated, in 
August of last year, by Messrs. HE. G. Henderson and Sons, 
who were the first to flower it in Europe. 
Descr. Rhizome as thick as the thumb, winding round 
the trunks of trees, to which it adheres by numerous root- 
fibres from its under surface, smooth, cylindric, green. 
Pseudobulbs rather distant, sessile, two inches in diameter 
and upwards, nearly globose, but contracted at the base, 
smooth, green. Leaves solitary and jointed on the pseudo- 
bulbs, one to two feet long, by three-quarters to one and a 
half broad, recurved, subacute, abruptly narrowed at the 
concave base, thickly coriaceous; nerves many, parallel. 
Pedunele from the base of the pseudobulb, short, decurved, 
thickly clothed with imbricating broadly ovate acute in- 
flated sheaths of a dull purple colour streaked with red. 
Raceme six inches long and upwards, by three to three and 
a half in diameter, pendulous, elongate ovoid with an 
obtuse incurved tip, most dense-flowered and foetid; bracts 
about equalling the flowers, lanceolate, acuminate, pale 
lilac striped with red. Flowers one-third of an inch in 
diameter. Ovary slender. Sepals ovate-oblong, revolute, 
ochreous, with red reticulations. Petals lanceolate, acum1- 
nate, dull ochreous with a central red band. Tap chore 
Stipitate, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, recurved, yellow wit 
red ribs on the disk. Colwmn short, obtuse, with two short 
teeth in front at the tip.—J. D. H. 
San Le 
Fig. 1, Flower seen in front; 2, the same in profile ; 3, column and lip ; 4, lip; 
5, column; 6, pollen :—ai/ enlarged. : 
