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* Found growing from the crevices of sandstone rocks, 
on the eastern side of Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, where 
it was observed in flower in October 1834.”—R. C. 
“ The above is extracted from a letter from my brother, 
Mr. Richard Cunningham, dated August 2, 1834. He adds, 
** [ send you in a bottle a Dendrobium, which, not finding 
noticed in either printed or manuscript enumerations in my 
possession I have called Cassythoides, from the primá facie 
resemblance it has to the genus Cassytha, not only in its 
leafless character and short racemes of flowers, but in its 
peculiar chocolate bronze or japanned papulose stems—-it 
may be found, that it also resembles it in its climbing 
propensities.” 
It is not a little remarkable that so highly curious a plant 
as this should so long have been overlooked, although a 
native ofa locality which, as Mr. Allan Cunningham remarks, 
has doubtless been traversed by Botanists of many countries 
in Europe, who have visited Port Jackson in ships of discovery 
since the Colony was founded in January 1788, viz., French, 
Spanish, German, Swedish, Russian, &c., besides many of 
our own countrymen. 
