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subject. The stems often attain as much as twelve feet 

 or more in height, and are freely furnished with long 

 fleshy clinging roots, and on either side with distichous 

 linear-oblong emarginate leaves about five inches long. 

 The flowers are produced from the axils of the leaves, on 

 long branching panicles ; they each measure two inches in 

 diameter and have the dorsal sepal and petals narrow linear 

 ligulate obtuse, deep red mottled with pale orange, and the 

 lateral sepals broad oblong spathulate, crispy, and deep 

 scarlet ; the lip is small, the ligulate front and the quadrate 

 side lobes being deep crimson, and the throat white. This 

 plant requires to be so placed as to be freely exposed to sun- 

 light, which is the only sure way of inducing it to bloom ; 

 it is indeed a shy bloomer, which doubtless accounts for its 

 not being so generally cultivated as one might expect. By 

 letting it grow up the roof, where it gets plenty of light and 

 sun, it will, however, most likely flower when sufficiently 

 strong for that purpose. We have seen it do well on a 

 large block suspended from the roof, and thus grown we have 

 known it to produce as many as five spikes at one time. 

 When well bloomed it is quite worth all the care that is 

 bestowed upon it, for it is really a superb plant. During the 

 summer it should be treated to a liberal supply of heat and 

 moisture, as from March to October is the time it is in 

 vigorous growth. While resting in winter, let it have but 

 little water — just enough to keep it from shrivelling. The 

 most suitable material to pot it in is sphagnum moss, which, 

 as before remarked, should be kept moist during the grow- 

 ing season. We have several times seen it blooming very 

 freely in the large Palm House of his Grace the Duke of 

 Devonshire, at Chatsworth, and have been informed by the 

 late Mr. Speed, when gardener there, that it has a predilec- 

 tion for fixing its roots on birch poles. — Cochin China. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., tt. 2997—8; Bot. Eeg.,t. 1131 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, 

 ii. t. 37 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., iv. 49, with tab. ; Puydt, Les Orch., 226, fig. 

 229. 



E. Lowii, Pichb. f. — This most remarkable and exceedingly 

 rare Orchid grows on high trees in the humid forests of 

 Borneo. It is distinct in growth from any other species, and 

 is readily known by its climbing stem an inch thick, and 

 emitting stout fleshy roots from the lower part, its numerous 

 obliquely obtuse strap-shaped leathery dark green leaves 

 two to three feet long, and its remarkably long drooping 



