mountains upon the Tenasserim coast ; and that he does not 

 find it differ in any respect from the species as found in 

 Nipal, where it is exceedingly common, as well as in 

 Sylhet and Chittagong, growing parasitically upon trees 

 in mountain forests. 



Our drawing was made last November, in the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society, to which establishment it had 

 been presented by the Honourable Court of Directors of 

 the East India Company, along with a great quantity of 

 other most rare and valuable plants personally brought to 

 England in the summer of 1828 by Dr. Wallich. 



It is a stove plant, requiring the same treatment as 

 other similar epiphytes, but by no means difficult to cul- 

 tivate. At the same time with this, the other species of 

 Pholidota above alluded to (undulata Wall.) was brought 

 home ; and is thus, it is to be hoped, secured to our 

 Gardens: it is a much more delicate plant. 



Upon the subject of its cultivation. Dr. Wallich re- 

 marked in the paper from which the foregoing extracts 

 have been made, that, ** Like most members of this lovely 

 tribe, it is easily made to grow on the trunks of old trees, 

 taking care to place some vegetable mould under its roots, 

 and tying it so as to retain its situation. It requires 

 constant humectation, which is easily effected by means 

 of a small vessel suspended over it, with a perforated 

 bottom, through which the water is led down upon the 

 plant by means of a string, the upper end of which fills, 

 though it does not quite shut up, the aperture of the vessel. 

 It is propagated by separating its bulbous stems, which 

 generally form dense tufts, ornamented with evergreen, 

 dark-coloured, shining leaves, of a peculiarly firm and 

 leathery texture. 



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J. L. 



