flowers with the posticous saccate sepal inflated and much 

 larger than the rest of the flower ; one of them, /. Jerdonm, 

 is figured at Tab. 4739 of this work. 



The specimen here figured was communicated by Messrs. 

 Veitch in August, 1890, with the information that it came 

 from Penang, but as there are specimens in the Kew 

 Herbarium collected by its discoverer, Mr. C. Curtis, the 

 Superintendent of the Penang Gardens, in the Island of 

 Langkawi, off the east coast of Sumatra, it is probable that 

 the latter is its native country, and that Mr. Veitch' s infor- 

 mation refers to the fact of his plant having been sent to 

 England from Penang (no doubt by Mr. Curtis). In a 

 note accompanying Mr. Curtis' Herbarium specimens (No. 

 1678), the plant is stated to form a shrub three to four 

 feet high, with a stem as thick as a man's leg, and very 

 brittle, and that it inhabits limestone rocks. It is not 

 stated whether it branches or not. Messrs. Veitch's 

 specimen was about six inches high, with a strictly columnar 

 simple trunk, gibbous at the base, greenish on the sur- 

 face, and two-thirds of an inch in diameter. Plants of it 

 m the Royal Gardens, sent by Mr. Curtis, have also simple 

 stems, but they vary a good deal in shape, some being 

 dilated and turnip-shaped in the lower half. The leaves 

 vary from ovate to oblong, and attain ten inches in length. 

 —J. D. H, 



Fig. 1, Sepal; 2, stamen -.—both, enlarged. 



