of the same generic group, so long considered as a chief 
ornament of our stoves. We do not find the species re- 
corded in the Kew Catalogue; but we find a specimen in 
the Banksian Herbarium,. which is stated to have flowered 
in the garden at Kew. We believe the plant to be exceed- 
ingly rare with us, and never heard of its flowering in this 
country, except at Kew, till we were favoured with the 
present sample by Mr. Fawkes; who had the kindness 
to send it us from Farmley Hall, his seat in Yorkshire; 
where it blossomed in the hothouse during the present 
summer. 
According to Dr. Roxburgh, a native of Chittagong. 
According to others, of Java also. We have no autho- 
rity for the time of its introduction. 
Stems simple, upright, round, covered by the sheaths of 
the foliage, villous at the upper part, from 5 to 8 feet high. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovately oblong, elliptical, acu- 
minate, quite entire, smooth on the upper side, villous on 
the under, 2 feet long, furnished with very numerous fine 
nerves which converge at an acute angle. Petioles chan- 
nelled at the upper side, a palm long. Raceme terminal, 
simple, subcylindrical, spikeformed, manyflowered, a foot 
long. Pedicles oneflowered, short, 2 or 3 lines long, nearly 
of one length, villous. Spathe inferior, oblongly ovate, - 
ventricose, smooth, snow-white, an inch long, 2-parted: 
segments ovate, sharp pointed: the tips reddish. Calyx 
superior, of one piece, tubular, gibbous below, smooth, 
white, the depth of the spathe, surrounding the base of the 
corolla closely, withering but persistent, trifid at the tip: 
segments ovate, acuminate, reddish at the top. Outer co- 
rolla of one petal, white, an inch and an half long. Tube 
cylindrical, upright, smooth, half an inch long. Limb de- 
flectent, 3-parted: segments oblong, obtuse, villous on the 
outside, silky: uppermost rather broader than the others : 
inner corolla (label) of one piece, longer than the outer one, 
contracted at the base into a tube, adnate to the faux of 
the outer one, thence dilated and lastly expanded into a 
large roundish /amina or border, undulated at the edge, 
prolonged at the top into 2 oblong lobes (4 lines long), in- 
clined upwards; red on the inside and sprinkled over with 
dots and little broken yellow lines; yellow on the outside 
and ornamented with a few red lines. Filament 1, in- 
