* This lovely Orchidea comes so near to Roxburgh's 
Dendrobium clavatum (Hort. Beng. p. 63), that 1 should 
consider them as identical, if he had not ascribed bulbs to 
his plant, of which ours is entirely destitute. In the Calcutta 
garden the two plants maintain that character, although in 
other respects they are alike. It is possible that under 
particular circumstances, the bulbs or pseudo-bulbs may 
become elongated into clavate stems, and if so the Silhet 
plant would be the same species with ours from Nipal." 
The above we borrow from Dr. Wallich's splendid Plante 
Asiatica. 
Beautiful as is the specimen of this plant, represented in 
the accompanying figure, it is still inferior to what is pro- 
duced in India, so that cultivators have still a point to gain 
in respect to this charming species. Our drawing was 
made in the stove of Messrs. Loddiges in May last. 
Since the last addition to the published species of Den- 
drobium, we have received from Mr. Allan Cunningham 
specimens of a most remarkable new kind, with the fol- 
lowing memorandum. ; 
“ Dendrobium cassythoides; aphyllum, caule glabro stoloni- 
fero, floribus racemosis, racemis (stolonibus oppositis) sub- 
tribrachiatis, bracteis lanceolato-ovatis appressis, labello con- 
voluto indiviso apice incurvo crispato, [callo lineari in medio 
et altero ovato acuminato sub apice.”] 
“A leafless stoloniferous plant, with tribrachiate racemes 
of lowers, of which the perianths are of a brownish or golden 
yellow colour, and the labellum white, and elegantly pencilled 
within, as in D. Pierardi." 
