The noble specimen here figured blossomed in the Orchi- 
deous stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in April, 1837. 
It is considered to be a native of Java, but when and by 
whom introduced is not known. It was first described in 
this country from plants which blossomed in Mrs. Cartiey’s 
collection. The long, curved spike of copious, fragrant, 
stellated flowers, and the creeping habit with ample and 
graceful foliage, combine to render this a most desirable 
plant for our stoves. 
Descr. Stems creeping, branched, covered with sheathing 
scales, and bearing what may be considered pseudo-bulbs, 
clothed with still larger scales, and each of these having two 
broadly lanceolate leaves, marked with five longitudinal ribs. 
Scape from the base of the leaves, long, curved, clothed 
with ferruginous down (as well as the germens), and bear- 
ing copious flowers for nearly its whole length. Bracteas 
ovato-lanceolate, soon withering. Perianth pale yellow- 
green. Sepals (which are downy on the outside) and petals 
nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, patent, two of the former 
uniting below, and forming a conspicuous, blunt spur at 
the base of the labellwn. Lip nearly parallel with the 
column, lanceolate, three-lobed, the disk with five elevated, 
crenated lines, the side lobes obtuse, incurved, marked with 
red lines, the middle lobe much acuminated and patent. 
Column extended below. Anther-case hemispherical. Pol- 
len-masses four. 
Fig. 1. Column, Anther, and Lip. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses -— 
Magnified. 
