velyety leaves, the light-green longitudinal nerves of 
which are united by groups of transverse snow-white 
irregular streaks, much like those of Dichorisandra 
mosaica, but more delicate. It is a native of Java, 
and flowered in the Royal Gardens in May of last year, 
having been sent by the Director of the Buitenzorg 
Gardens. 
Descr. An erect rather succulent glandular pubescent 
herb, twelve to eighteen inches high ; roots fibrous, fleshy. 
Stem below the leaves four to six inches high, as thick as 
a swan’s quill, pale reddish clothed with short sheaths that 
are sometimes terminated by areduced leaf-blade. Leaves 
three to five, approximate, elliptic, acute, narrowed into a 
short stout petiole with a short amplexicaul sheath, upper 
surface very dark velvety green with green parallel nerves 
and groups of delicate white undulating cross striole, 
under surface and petiole pale flesh-coloured with white 
nerves and irregular cross bars. Scape strict with one 
or two flesh-coloured sheaths. Spike four inches long, 
lax-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, flesh-coloured, as long as 
the ovaries which are green and one-third of an inch long. 
Perianth half an inch in diameter ; lateral sepals spreading, 
broadly ovate, obtuse, bright orange-red with white midrib 
and tips; petals, lanceolate, faleate, appressed one on each 
side of the dorsal sepal which is rather thelargest of the three. 
[ip superior, small, sessile in the centre of the flower, 
yellowish white, consisting of a pitcher-shaped sac with 
rounded ears between which is a small deflexed spathulate 
flat midlobe; there are two globose glands just within 
_ the margin of the pitcher, one on each side. Column 
short, stout, with a long rostellum, membranous wings, 
and a cup-shaped clinandrium.—J, D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, petal ; 3, lip; 4, side view of the same, showing one of the 
glands ; 5, top of ovary and column; 6, column seen in front :—all enlarged 
