the kindness of Mr. Cooper. This indefatigable and most 
successful cultivator of Orchidee observes, that he received 
it through the liberality of the Horticultural Society, to 
whom it was sent by Dr. Waxuicu. According to that 
gentleman’s account, in the place above quoted, the plant 
is an inhabitant of Nepaul, where it flowers during the 
rainy seasons. If we may judge from the specimen figured 
in Watucn’s “Icones,” Mr. Coorer will have the satis- 
faction of seeing a much larger raceme of flowers at some 
future season, and one that will amply deserve the specific 
name Dr. Waxuicu has given to it. But in fact, of two 
plants possessed by Mr. Coorrr, one only, and that the 
offset (the one here figured) has blossomed, the other, and 
a much finer specimen, has as yet shown no disposition to 
flower. 
Descr. The plant from which our drawing was taken 
is about a foot in height. The stem is jointed, clavate, 
compressed, furrowed, with the joints sheathed by a deli- 
cate membrane, bearing at the extremity about three dis- 
tichous broadly lanceolate, obscurely nerved, dark-green, 
coriaceous leaves. Raceme lateral, from the extremity of 
the joint, immediately beneath the lowest leaf, longer than 
the leaves, recurved, bearing numerous, handsome, orange- 
buff-coloured flowers, quite destitute of fragrance. Brac- 
teas lanceolate, reflexed, striated, straw-coloured, membra- 
naceous. Sepals and petals similar in shape and colour, 
ovate, obscurely striated, but the two lower sepals unite 
and run down into a blunt spur at the base of the lip. Lip 
deep orange-colour, with an orbicular, concave lamina, 
beautifully fringed at the margin, and hairy on the upper 
surface, tapering below intoa claw, within which is a small, 
bifid, fringed scale, directed inwards. Column short, orange- 
yellow, decurrent below where the lip unites with it. An- 
thers nearly hemispherical, attached by a filament to the 
back of the column. ° 
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