was sent to Kew for figuring. Sir Trevor’s plant was 
sent from Madagascar in June, 1900, by Mr. Hamelin. 
The stem sent was wired on to a teak trellis, which was 
fixed into a large pot filled with sphagnum moss, and 
placed in a hothouse. It soon began to grow vigorously, 
and a year later had reached the top of the trellis, atter 
which it was trained horizontally along the roof. When 
it flowered, in June last, it had reached a length of ten 
or twelve feet, and the inflorescence was produced about 
four feet from the top of the stem. 
V. Phalenopsis, with which V. Humblotii was confused, 
has dark green, uniformly coloured stems, and smaller 
flowers, which have cream-white sepals and petals, and an 
orange-yellow lip, paler on the margin. It is figured in 
Flore des Serres, t. 1769-1770. There is a small plant in 
the Kew collection, but it has not yet flowered. 
Descr.—A tall, leafless climber. Stems terete, fleshy, 
glaucous green, covered with numerous dark green warts ; 
internodes three to four inches long, by about six lines 
broad; stouter at the base. Squame ovate, acute, about 
four lines long. Inflorescence lateral, six imches long, 
like the stem in colour and markings, but with fewer 
warts. Bracts oblong, subacute, or obtuse, somewhat 
concave, six to ten lines long. JPedicels about two 
inches long. Flowers about five inches across, bright 
yellow, with numerous brown markings on the lip, and 
some rosy crimson hairs in the throat. Sepals elliptic- 
oblong, sub-apiculate, two and a half to three inches long, 
ten to eleven lines broad; lateral somewhat falcate. 
Petals similar, but broader. Lip entire, apiculate, undu- 
late, about two inches and a half long, convolute at the 
base, and adnate to the sides of the column, forming a 
broad tube, about half an inch long; dise pilose, rosy 
crimson, lower hairs retrorse, extending upwards in two 
broad lines, with, on either side, a number of short, 
radiating brown lines. Column clavate, slightly arcuate, 
ten lines long; rostellum. quadrate, one line long.— 
R. A. Rowe. 
Fig. 1, column; 2 and 3, anther case seen from front and back:—all 
magnified. 
