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which is always turned inwards. These petals are painted with thick br 
but are chiefly spots ; among tliem however you may make out the letters A. I- O. The lip is paler tlian the other 
petals and marked lengthwise with brown lines. 
In Ternate, according to Rumphius, the matrons, and especially the wives, sisters and daughters of the Kings (who are 
all called Putri in Malay, and Boli in the Moluccas), so entirely appropriate these flowers to themselves that a common 
woman and especially a slave would ofier them a great affront if she were to put them on her head. The flowers are 
reserved exclusively for the great ladies, who cause them to be sought for in the forests, and braid them in their hair, 
saying that nature herself has shown that such flowers are not fit for people of low degree, since they grow nowhere 
except in high places; hence they are called Bonga hold BJid Bonffa putri^ ot the Princesses' flower. It would also 
appear that the Malay gentlemen make from the seeds a philtre which has a surprising effect upon the ladies who 
swallow it. 
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their leaves. The second kind may indeed be identical with the species next to be mentioned. 
multiflormn 
tigrinuiD li 
ovati insidentibus, scapo incurvo, racemo erecto longissimo cerniio mnltifloro^ floribus membranaceis^ 
Dlanis, Details acutis subconfonnibns anffustioribus, labelli trilobi 
obtusiusculi 
lateralibus 
jugo in medio camoso elevato ad basin lobi intermedii interrupto in costas 2 lamelliformes producto, 
coliminse marginc supra basin elevato flexuoso incurvo foveam altam obconicam circumdante* 
The two varieties of this species, one with whole-coloured, the other with spotted flowers, were brought from the 
Philippine Islands, and difi'er altogether from both Gr, speciosum and fastuosum in haviug thin membranous flowers, 
instead of the thick leathery texture of those two species, and drooping not erect racemes. Dr. Blume suggests that this 
plant may not be different from his Gi^- scriptitm ; and it is not impossible that it may include Rimiphius's secoiul sort 
of Angrcecum scHptum (the one he has figured) ; but it can scarcely be compared with his first sort, either in leaves, 
or pseudobulbs, or in the markings of the flower, which have nothing grammical about them or rescinbUng Hebrew 
characters. The name, then, given by us in 1838 will not have to be disturbed. 
^ Grammatophylliim ? pulcrum Simnorjlie In Lmn(2a xv., 477, a Timor plant, is known only 
by name. 
"^ Grammatopliyllum ? Finlaysonianum lAndley, Genera and Species of OrcL p. 173, is now 
called Bromheadia palustris. 
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