As it was also ancient, this seemed to show that the monkey god and the orchid had been from the beginning jointly worshipped by the Pongo.
When she had opened the door, there appeared, growing in the centre of the enclosure, the most lovely plant, I should imagine, that man ever saw.

It measured some eight feet across, and the leaves were dark green, long and narrow.

From its various crowns rose the scapes of bloom.

And oh! those blooms, of which there were about twelve, expanded now in the flowering season.

The measurements made from the dried specimen I have given already, so I need not repeat them.