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is supposed to be the true ** Thus.” I do not consider myself 
qualified to offer any opinion in that respect. The wood 
makes excellent fuel ; the perfume it diffuses whilst burning 
is extremely agreeable to most persons. I do not know that 
it is applied to any other purpose.— Eztract of a letter from 
M. SS. Melville, Esq. of Stirling, to James Bandinel, Esq. ; 
dated March 9nd, 1839. 
25. CCELÓGYNE ocellata. (Gen. et Sp. Orch. 40.) 
This beautiful plant has just flowered imperfectly with 
Messrs. Loddidges, who imported it from India. The sepals 
and petals are pure white; the lip is also white, but it has 
two very bright orange yellow spots on each lateral lobe, 
and two others smaller, and of the same colour at the base of 
the middle lobe, besides which there are some lateral streaks 
of brown. The column is bordered with brilliant orange 
yellow. The crests of the lip are three, which converge 
towards the base of the middle lobe, and there the lateral ones 
diverge again over a pair of convexities, beyond which they 
disappear ; on each side of them, at the base of the said con- 
vexities, and on the outside, is an additional short curled 
crest. The flowers grow in erect racemes about six inches 
long, and are themselves an inch or more long. 
26. DENDROBIUM lingueforme. (Swartz.) 
I have formerly received this curious plant in flower from 
various collections, but never in such perfection as from the 
garden of Richard Harrison, Esq. of Aighburgh, who cul- 
tivates it upon the decayed branch of a tree. It inhabits 
the country near Sydney, in New South Wales, where it was 
found by the earliest Botanists who visited that colony. It 
has hard, thick tongue-shaped leaves, lying flat upon the 
rhizoma which creeps upon the rock or tree it grows on; 
they have the texture of an Aloe, and probably indicate that 
the species does not inhabit damp shaded places, but rather 
such hot dry situations as Mr. Cunningham assigns to 
Dendrobium aemulum and undulatum; see Bot. Register, 
fol. 1699, for observations upon the culture of these plants. 
The flowers are greenish white, with long slender sepals and 
petals, and appear from the young ends of the rhizomata. 
They have no smell, nor any feature of beauty. 
