of its growth^ and llic extraordinary size of its flowers, render it the Queen 
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a scape six feet higli, and an incli in diameter at the base. 
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Dr, Blame sajs^ that, in its wild state, the stems are from two to three feet high^ straiglitish^ 
cylindrical, from an inch to an inch and half in diameter, covered at the base with rudimentary 
leaves only, but towards the top closely loaded with fohage. The perfect leaves are in two rows, 
equitant at the base, very much spreading or curved backwards, from one to two feet long and an 
inch wide, striated, shining, smooth, with a central rib channelled on the upper side, and bluntly 
protuberant on the lower. The flowering stem, or scape, springs directly from the base of the 
leaf-stem, is from five to six feet high, and bears a profusion of blossoms for about half its length. 
Each flower stands upon a curved stalk, about three inches long, and has the same or a greater 
diameter ; in texture it is between fleshy and leathery ; outside it is pale lemon-colour, inside a 
brighter yellow, marked with numerous roundish brown spots, arranged 'with much irregularity; all 
the parts are somewhat oblong, a little narrowed at the base, the two lateral sepals having a slightly 
curved figure, as in Henantliera. The lip is equally tlKee-lobed, rolled round the column, and about 
half the length of the sepals ; it is attached by a moveable joint to a pouch at the base of the 
column j the lateral lobes are acute and smooth, except near the middle line of the lip, where they 
are hairy ; the middle lobe is ovate, more coriaceous, somewhat longer, and covered with a thick 
felt, except in the very middle, where three raised naked lines extend to within a short distance 
of the tip. 
already stated, the specimen that flowered with Mr. Loddiges produced but one 
perfect flower. All the others were in various deformed states, of which the following^ whose 
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No. 1. Sepals 2 and petals 2, decussating. Column opposite one of the sepals, with a hooked 
spur 
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lower half of column terete. Stigma a perforation. Pollen 2 globular 
masses, united at the base, and excavated behind. Gland 0. No. 2. 
The same, except that the sepals were broader; the two petals directed 
forward, and not exactly decussating ; no spur on the column ; a long 
cirrhus growing from the hinge of the anther. No. 3. Sepals 3, the 
united at the base. 
natural 
two lateral partially 
Column excavated at the base^ and prominent there, with two teeth at 
the upper edge of the projection. It was apparently as perfect as in the 
natural condition ; but no lip formed upon it. 
These changes may contribute hereafter to our knowledge of the theoretical value of the parts of 
the flower of Orchids. 
The genus GrammatophjIIum was originally proposed by Dr. Blume, and was adopted in the 
Genera and Species of Orchidaceous plants by one of us, in consequence of its having a pair of 
pollen masses hollowed out behind, and seated each upon one end of a horse-shoe shaped gland ; 
which circumstance alone it appeared to differ from Cymbidium. Since that time the 
learned Dutch botanist has published a fine f 
we beg to translate the following passages : — 
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