lassat et horridum reddit prsetereiintem." He says, it always 

 grows in the highest and most inaccessible mountains, 

 where the scattered trees just afford it a little shade, and 

 where the soil is but scantih' supplied with moisture. He 

 adds that it is called by the natives Daun petola, or Petola 

 leaf, on account of its resemblance to the Petola, a precious 

 silken vestment of many gaudy colours. 



The beauty of the plant consists in this character, for its 

 flowers are white and green, and very inconspicuous. But 

 the leaves are singularly painted with golden veins upon a 

 brownish purple ground, as if, in the words of Rumf, " some 

 cunning painter had traced them over with unknown cha- 

 racters." 



The plant will require the same treatment as Goodyera, 

 Hsemaria, Spiranthes, Pelexia, and other terrestrial Orchida- 

 ceous plants of the same division of the order. 



I have it from Mr. Macrae, and Sir W. Hooker from 

 Mrs. Walker, from Ceylon. 



Fig. 1. represents a flower after the sepals and petals 

 have been cut off; 2. the column with the curious involute 

 membranous margin ; 3. the same unrolled and seen in a 

 front view. 



