In the wild state in which the flowering branches hang, each pedicel is 
recurved so that the flowers, though reflexed with relation to the stem, 
are, in fact, ascending 3 in our stoves where the stems have been hith- 
erto unnaturally trained upwards, the pedicels do not lengthen so much, 
and are straight, so that the flowers are erect or nearly so, and in a clo- 
ser head. CAtyx bell-shaped, but not spreading, smooth, green, half 
an inch long, divided to about the middle into five narrow ovate 
pointed lobes. Corowa tubular, from an inch and a half to near two 
inches long, swelling above the middle ‘and more or less incurved, coy- 
ered with short hairs, of a rich vermilion colour in the specimens which 
have flowered in this country, but described as varying to orange or 
brick red; the limb cleft into five erect divisions, nearly equal to each 
other and obscurely arranged in two lips, the two upper divisions being 
less deeply cleft, and the lowest rather longer and narrower than the 
rest. STAMENS exserted, the filaments hairy, the anthers oblong, 
joined two and two together by their apex.  Styie exserted, smooth, 
with a large oblique peltate or somewhat funnel-shaped stigma. Cap- 
SULE eight or ten inches long, very narrow. Se£EDS very numerous 
and minute, with two white hairs at the upper end and one at the lower, 
each hair very slender and about half an inch long, that is to say, full 
twelve times the length of the seed. 
- Poputar anD GeocrapuicaL Notice. Although the Orchi- 
dacee form by far the greatest proportion of the epiphytes, which 
adorn the stems of trees in damp tropical climates, yet they are far 
from being the only ones. Several Gesneriacex of other genera, 
besides Melastomacee, Rubiacex, Asclepiadacee, &c. have long since 
“received, on this account, the specific name of parasite, and are often 
objects of great beauty. Hitherto, indeed, they have been but little 
known, partly from the difficulty of preserving specimens of thick fleshy 
plants as they usually are, and partly from the art of cultivating them 
being a creation, as it were, but of yesterday. But now that attention is 
so much turned to this branch of erties it is to be hoped that we 
peel Pee 
may soon see our Ltich as our other stoves; 
and surely none can etter deserve a place in them than the splendid st 
nus of which the plant here figured is the first, and hitherto the only, 
representative which has found its way to this country. Itis a native of 
Sylhet, a province of Bengal and has long been cultivated in the Cal- 
cutta Botanic Garden, having been, till of late years, almost the only spe- 
