of the noble collections in this country having been per- 

 mitted to participate in the possession of so beautiful a 

 plant. It is to be hoped that it is now before the public 

 under more favourable auspices : the Horticultural Society, 

 in M^hose Garden is the specimen from which the accom- 

 panying drawing was taken, will be eager to distribute it 

 as quickly as its slow growth and difficult propagation will 

 permit. 



The plant in the Chiswick Garden was brought to 

 England by Dr. Wallich, and presented by the Hon. Court 

 of Directors of the East India Company. It is cultivated 

 in the stove, in a very hot damp atmosphere, in a pot full 

 of moss, suspended from the roof by a wire, and a little 

 overshadowed by climbing and other plants : it flowers in 

 April. 



By the kind permission of Dr. Wallich, we are enabled 

 to give the following extract relating to the species, from 

 Dr. Roxburgh's MS. Flora Indica: — 



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" This lovely parasitical species was found growing on 

 trees in the vicinity of Dacca by the Hon. Charles Andrew, 

 who sent plants to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta : flower- 

 ing time the hot and rainy season. It has great resemblance 

 to the figures in Rheede's Hortus Mcdabaricus, quoted by 

 Willdenow for Aerides retusum and prsemorsum, but the 

 capsule difl^ers from both, and, I believe, the horn and 

 labellum also ; however, they are certainly very nearly 

 allied, and not inferior in beauty, while in flower, to any 

 in the whole tribe of Orchideaj." 



" Root of several thick, fleshy, obtuse fibres, which issue 

 from the stem through the sheaths of the lower leaves, 

 and adhere to the tree, which gives support to the plant. 

 Stems perennial, creeping, invested in the sheaths of the 

 leaves. Leaves bifarious, imbricate, sheathing, recurvate, 

 linear, channelled, thick, firm, and smooth ; apex obliquely 

 prasmorse, from 6 to 12 inches long by one broad when laid 

 flat. Racemes axillary or lateral, solitary, drooping, longer 

 than the leaves. Flowers numerous, approximate, diverging, 

 pretty large ; colour a beautiful mixture of red and white 

 spotted. Bracts ovate-cordate, one-flowered, embracing 

 the insertion of the pedicel. Corol (calij.v Swartz) five- 

 petalled, upper three oblong, the middle one broader; 



