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transparent, which have the effect of silver em- 
broidery. 
Until B. Beccarit was introduced, from Borneo, 
in 1867, the Grammatophyllums were regarded as 
monsters incomparable. Mr. Arthur Keyser, 
Resident Magistrate at Selangor, in the Straits 
Settlement, tells of one which he gathered on a 
Durian tree, seven feet two inches high, thirteen 
feet six inches across, bearing seven spikes of 
flower, the longest eight feet six inches~a weight 
which fifteen men could only just carry. Mr. F. 
W. Burbidge heard a tree fallin the jungle one 
night when he was four miles away, and on visiting 
the spot, he found, “right in the collar of the trunk, 
a Grammatophyllum big enough to filla Pickford’s 
van, just opening its golden-brown spotted flowers. 
on stout spikes two yards long.” It is not to be 
hoped that we shall ever see monsters like these 
in Europe. The genus, indeed, is unruly. G. 
speciosum has been grown to six feet high, I 
believe, which is big enough to satisfy the modest 
amateur, especially when it develops leaves two 
feet long. The flowers are—that is, they ought to 
be—six inches in diameter, rich yellow, blotched 
with reddish purple. They have some giants at 
Kew now, of which fine things are expected. G. 
Measureseanum,named after Mr.Measures,a leading 
