The drawing was taken in December last, in the hot- 
house at the extensive and well-ordered botanical establish- 
ment of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater, from a plant 
which flowered probably for the first time in Europe, and 
had been raised from seed received from Dr. Wallich. ‘Two 
stems were produced, each nearly ten feet high, termi- 
nated by a spike of cream-coloured flowers with red fila- 
ments. They did not appear to us to have any scent, while 
those of speciosum are said to be very fragrant. . 
“ Lower leaves elliptically lanceolate, upper oblongly 
lanceolate, all with a subulately filiform earlier withering 
point. Spike 6 inches long: flower—fascicles apart, most 
frequently in threes, spreading, 3-flowered. Germen vil- 
lous. Calyx spathelike, scariose, furred. Tube of corolla 
cylindrical cream-coloured, outer limb 3-parted, with nar- 
row linear pointed segments, inner with cuneately linear 
ones and slightly widened slanting apex: foot of the label z | 
widely linear, blade of an ovate circumference, with semi- 
ovate bluntish lobes. Filamené longer than the label : anther 
linear, bifid at the base with polliniferous lobes. Stigma 
cyathiform (long-cupped) undivided fringed. Barren sta- 
mens 2, very short, subcylindrical, near. 
~ From the latin 
of Mr. Brown. oa 
