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of Katmandu, he contributed greatly to the riclies of the Botanic 

 Garden of Calcutta, and through it to the gardens and herbariums 

 of England. It was through his local intluence, and afterwards 

 also of the late Mr. Robert Stuart's, the officiating resident," that 

 1 was permitted to send permanent collecting parties into that 

 country, where they enjoyed his unceasing support and encourage- 

 ment; and afterwards to visit it myself during a whole year, 

 which I spent under his friendly and hospitable roof.f Would 

 that the cause of Natural History could boast many such 

 Maecenases in India and everywhere else! — The plant varies 

 strikingly in the shape and size of the labellum, as also in the 

 general colour of the flower, which from a bright yellow 

 becomes pale, or changes into white with a pinkish centre 

 in j3 (the only instance in our genus of that colour, with which 

 I am acquainted), according to Mr. Cathcart's drawing. It is 

 orange in y. I have only given the above-mentioned varieties, 

 as an abstract of the manifold changes to which this noble species 

 is liable. 



13. H. Sieholdii ; foliis ellipticis subtus, bracteis convolutis 

 reraotiusculis multifloris, calyceque ferrugineo-villosis, laciniis 

 limbi interioribus unguiculatis acuminatis, labello bipartite 

 lobis semiovatis staminis dimidium subsequante. 



H. flavescens, Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Juurii. vii. p. '^81. Paxt. 

 Flow. Gard. iii. p. 164. n. 648. f. 311. 



H. Roxburghii, Siehold in Hort. Soc. Journ. I. c. 



Native country doubtful, perhaps Japan. 



There is a beautiful specimen of this noble plant in Dr. Lindley's 

 Herbarium, from the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick. 

 Although allied to H. Gardnerianum, it seems quite distinct; 

 nor can I refer it to any other species. In the Society's Journal, 

 H. flavescens is cited for it without hesitation, although quite 

 different, as I think, in wanting the compact spike, the short 

 stamen, etc. of that species ; and from my H. villosum, with 



* See my note to Primula Stuartii, Roxb. Flor. Ind. ii. p. 20. 



+ lu 1820 I had the satisfaction to dedicate a very reuuirkablp genus of 

 plants to that distinguished benefactor of Indian Botany, whicli was first 

 published in Roxburgh's Fl. Ind. i. p. 400, and ii. p. 317 and 318. In this 

 second volume, as well as in my I'lantaj Asiatica; Rariores and the Catalogue 

 of the East Indian Herbarium, the correct name of Gardnera is given 

 (instead of Gardnei-ia). Endlicher has even established a suborder of 

 Gardnerepc, and in fact I long before him suggested that name for the 

 entire natural order to which the genus belongs. 



