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Excerpt from Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Vol. 15: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, Etc;; January to December, 1860 On the mountains of the Moluccas and East Indies, shaded by large trees, in a moist and foggy atmosphere, is found a little plant, with leaves of an astonishingly brilliant color. The natives call it Petola. This pretty plant was brought to Europe by travellers, and has been cultivated in our green houses for some years. Afterwards some similar plants were found, and M. Blume established from it the genus Anoectochilus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.