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slightly hairy flower spikes, which attain from six to twelve 

 feet in length, and each bear from forty to fifty flowers. The 

 most remarkable feature of the plant is the production of 

 dimorphous flowers, that is, of two dissimilar forms of 

 flower on the same spike. The two blossoms at the 

 base of the spike, which are separated widely from the 

 rest, are of a tawny yellow, spotted with crimson, and 

 have the sepals and petals lanceolate recurved and bluntish. 

 The rest of the numerous flowers, which are three inches 

 across, have lanceolate acute recurved wavy sepals and 

 petals of a greenish yellow, marked throughout by large 

 irregular blotches, mostly transverse, of a rich dark brown. 

 It blooms during July, August, and September, continuing 

 fresh for several weeks, and produces its flowers when not more 

 than from two to three feet high. The plant, which is ever- 

 green, succeeds well along with Vanda and A'erides. This plant 

 was formerly included in the genus Vanda, and, indeed, is to 

 be found in many collections under the name of Vanda Lowii. 

 Baron Hruby, of Peckau, Austria, flowered in 1883 a large 

 plant of this species which bore as many as twenty-two spikes 

 of flowers, which is the greatest number we ever heard of. 

 Mr. Bergman, gardener to Baron A. de Kothschild, at 

 Ferrieres, flowered in the same year a fine plant furnished 

 with eleven spikes, which averaged about nine feet in length. 

 — Borneo. 



¥lG.—Bot. 3Iag., t. 5475; Bafem., 2nd CeJit. Orch. PL, t. 161 ; Warner, 

 Sel. Orch. PI., ii. t. 4; Jllust. Eort., t. 417 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 46. 

 Syn. — Vanda Lowii; Arachnanthe Lowii. 



R. matutina, Lindley. — A very old and rare species, of 

 dwarf habit, flowering when not more than a foot in height. 

 It has stoutish speckled stems, producing thick fleshy roots, 

 and ligulate obtuse unequally bilobed distichous leaves. The 

 flowers, which are distantly set on the rachis, grow in axillary 

 panicled racemes on purple scapes, and are about two and 

 a half inches in depth, with the dorsal sepal linear-ligulate 

 acute, orange, the lateral ones parallel directed downwards, 

 rather dilated near the base, orange with a few deeper 

 orange spots ; the petals are narrow linear acute, orange 

 with smaller deep orange spots, and the lip is very minute, 

 white with a red central spot. We saw a fine plant of 

 this flowering in the collection of Baron A. de Rothschild, 

 Ferrieres, under the care of Mr. Bergman, the spike 

 bearing twenty flowers. It blossoms in July and August. 



