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PHAIUS ALBUS. 
throughout her whole varied and extensive territory, and gazing on the delicate 
texture and admirable structure and markings of this lovely j flower, but will 
acknowledge that 
" Nature is but a name for an effect 
Whose cause is God. — Not a flower 
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, 
Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires 
Their odours, and imparts their hues, 
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, 
Ingrains as countless as the sea- side sands, 
The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth. 
Happy who walks with him ! whom, what he finds 
Of flavour, or of scent, in fruit or flower, 
Or what he views of beautiful or grand 
In nature, from the broad majestic oak 
To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, 
Prompts with remembrance of a present God!" 
This plant will be found very difficult to cultivate, but, for want of the 
necessary room, we are unable at present to furnish the particulars of our treat- 
ment of it at Chatsworth, in which we have experienced the most perfect and 
gratifying success. We shall therefore revert to this subject at an early oppor- 
tunity. 
The plant which furnished the sample for the present drawing, flowered beau- 
tifully in the Orchidaceous-house at Chatsworth, in the early part of the month 
of May. 
'It is a native of the mountainous districts of Nepal and Silhet, and was 
imported from the latter place, in the year 1837, by his Grace the Duke of 
Devonshire. 
It was found by Mr. John Gibson, his Grace's collector, growing upon trees, 
in shady, damp woods, on the Khoseea hills, at an elevation of from two thousand 
to three thousand five hundred feet, where it blossoms during the rainy season, in 
the greatest profusion ; and it would be difficult to conceive a more enchanting 
sight than its clusters of elegant blossoms, contrasted with the delicate pale green 
of the foliage, present to the eye of the traveller ; enlivening the forest scenery with 
their charms, and investing the trees with a borrowed beauty of no ordinary 
character. 
The genus Phaius is distinguished from Bletia by the labellum being uniformly 
connate with the base of the column, and spurred ; while the labellum in Bletia is 
constantly articulate with the column, and never spurred. 
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