[Plate 69.] 
THE SHOWY GRAMMATOPHYL 
(GKAMMATOrnYLLUM SPECIOSUM.) 
from the Malay Arciiipklago, belonging to the Order of 
^^cciUt C^aracttr. 
TEE SirOWY GRAMMATOFllYL. Caulescent. Leaves 
in two rows, sword-shaped, nerveless. Scape erect 
racemose. Flowers coriaceous^ as long as their stalks. 
Sepals and petals obovate, oblong, wavy, obtuse. Middle 
lobe of the lip velvety, with three smooth ribs reaching 
higher than the middle, with lines of bail's next the ribs 
in the bottom. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM SPECIOSUM ; caulescens, 
foiiis distichis ensiformibus enerviis, scapo erecto 
racemoso, floribus coriaceis pedicellis oequalibus, sepalis 
petalisque obovato-oblongis undulatis obtusis, labelli lobo 
medio velutino ultra medium glabro abrupte tricostato 
circa costani in fundo piloso. 
GeTU and J%. Orck p. 173 ; BIutm. 
voh iv., p. 47, t. 191 ; Museiim Botanicum Lugduno-Batavumy i. 47, 
A T last is realised tlie long clierished wish to see tliis in flower. After 
mm 
state except one. 
accompanying 
gives some idea of what the plant is ; only the flowering scape proceeded from the top instead of the 
bottom of the stem^ whence it arises if in a natural condition. 
According to Blume this noble plant inhabits Java, and other islands of the Indian Arcliipelago, 
found 
The vigour 
