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* GRAMMATOPHYLLUM multifl6mm. 

 Many-jiowered Letter-leaf. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orciiidace^, § VANDEiE. 



GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Blume; Perianthium explanatum, patens, 

 sepalis petaiisque subaequalibus. Labellum cum columna articulatiim, nanum, 

 trilobuin, cucullatum. Columna arcuata, erecta, semiteres, basi callosa. An- 

 thera subbilocularis. PoHinia 2, globosa, basi sulcata, in extremitatibus glan- 



dulas arcuatae sessilia. Herba epiphyta, caulescens. Caules simplices, incras- 



sati. Folia Unearia, disticha, striata. Pedunculi radicates, longissimi, (v. 

 terminates?) multijlori. ¥\ores speciosissimi. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 173. 



G. midtijtorum ; racemo erecto longissimo niultifloro, bracteis ovato-oblongis 

 obtusis squamiformibus dorso convexis, sepalis oblongis obtusiusculis planis, 

 petalis acutis subconformibus angustioribus, labelli trilobi pubescentis medio 

 hirsuti lobo intermedio piano oblongo rotundato lateralibus erectis subfalcatis, 

 jugo in medio carnoso elevato ad basin lobi intermedii interrupto in lamellas 

 4 simplices cis apicem evanescentes producto, columnse margine supra basin 

 elevato flexuoso incurvo foveam altam obconicam circumdante. Botanical 

 Register, 1835, misc. no. 80. 



For this noble Orchidaceous plant now figured we are 

 indebted to the exertions of Mr. Hugh Cuming, who dis- 

 covered it in Manilla, and sent it to his customers in England. 

 I am not aware of its having flowered anywhere except with 

 Mr. Bateman, who sent me in May, 1838, the specimen, of 

 which the annexed plate represents the upper part; the 

 whole raceme was upwards of two feet long, and boi'e forty- 

 eight flowers, each about an inch and half in diameter. 



The plant has very much the aspect of a gigantic Cymbi- 

 dium, with long coriaceous leaves, distichous at the base, 

 and in fact there is not much to separate Grammatophylluni 



* From ypafifia a letter, and ^vXXov a leaf, in allusion to the marking of the 

 leaves of the flower. 



December, 1839. 2 a 



