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MACODES PETOLA. 
THE annexed figure represents the beautiful Macodes Petola, one of the most 
easily grown and popular species of the Aneectochilus group, and is repro- 
-duced from a photograph taken by Mr. C. P. Raffill of a plant grown at Kew. 
The species is a native of Java, and has been known for a very long period, 
being described by Blume in 1825 under the name of Neottia Petola (Blume 
Budr., p. 407, fig. 2). It was then thought to be identical with an Amboina plant 
figured and described by Rumphius as long ago as 1750, under the name of 
Folium Petolatum (Herb. Amb., vi. p. 93, t. 41, fig. 3), but Blume afterwards 
Fig. 6. MacopEs PETOLA. 
. discovered this to bean Ancectochilus, which he named A. Reinwardtii (Coll. 
Orch. Archip. Ind., p. 48). Lindley had already separated the preceding 
plant from Neottia, under the name of Macodes Petola (Gen. & Sp. Orch. Pl., 
p. 497). The habit of the plant is well shown in the photograph, as well as 
the shape and veining of the leaves. The colour has been described as very 
lustrous, and resembling light-coloured green velvet, enriched with well- 
defined netted lines and bands of a pale or yellowish hue, deepening to a 
_golden hue, and covering the whole surface. The racemes grow to about 
