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transverse lines of reddish brown on the lower part, and 

 having a blotch of the same near the acuminate inflexed tip, 

 which is dull j^ellow, the dorsal sepal fornicate, and the two 

 lateral ones saccato-gibbose at the base ; the petals and lip 

 are smaller, the latter white streaked with reddish purple. The 

 flowers, which are large and numerous (thirty to forty), have a 

 peculiar varnished appearance. It blooms in July and August, 

 and remains some time in beauty. This plant may be made 

 to succeed in a basket or on a block suspended from the roof, 

 provided it has a plentiful supply of water. — Madagascar. 



FlG.—Bot. Mat]., t. 5179; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orel. PI, t. 176; Fl. des 

 Serres, tt. 1488—89 ; Orchid Album, iv. t. Ii7. 

 S YN. —Gramviangis FAlisii. 



Gr. speciosum, Blume. — A magnificent Orchid with the 

 habit of a Cyrtopodium, and of which it has been remarked, 

 that it richly merits the title of the Queen of the Orchid- 

 aceous Plants. It has erect clustered terete compressed 

 stems, five to ten feet high, having a few large appressed 

 scales below, and clothed in the upper part with distichous 

 sheathing lorate leaves a foot and a half to two feet long, and 

 dilated at the base. The scape issues from the base of the 

 stem, is as thick as one's finger, and grows five to six feet 

 high. The flowers measure nearly six inches across, and 

 are of a deep yellow thickly spotted with reddish brown, the 

 sepal and petals being broadly oblong and blunt-ended, the 

 small three-lobed lip yellow streaked with brownish red, the 

 disk sulcate with three raised plates, and the red lines of the 

 front lobe bristling with short hairs. It blooms during 

 winter, and will last a long time in perfection if the flowers 

 are kept dry. — Java; Larnpong; Malacca; Singapore; Cochin 

 China. 



'FiG.—Bof. Mag., t. olf.T ; Fl. des Serres, t. 1386 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. 

 PL, t. 181 ; Paxt. FL Card., ii. t. 69 ; Lem. Jard. FL, t. 235 ; Blume, BIjdr., 

 377, tabell. 20; Id., Paimph., iv. t. 191 ; Gard. Ckron., N.S., x. 180, with fig. 



H^IMARIA, Lindley. 

 {Ti-ibe Neottiese, subtribe Spiranthete.) 



A neat and pretty dwarf-growing stove plant related to 

 Goodyera, to which it was formerly referred. It difi'ers, 

 however, amongst other points, in having divergent instead 



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