beautifully ciliated, the apex with a purple spot. Zip remarkably 
large, cucullate, very broadly cordate, deeply and most elegantly 
fringed, bearing two large orange spots on the pure white 
ground, and tipped with purple at the emarginate apex. Column 
concealed within the base of the labellum. VW. J. 7. 
Cutt. This belongs to the caulescent section of Dendrobium, 
and, being of a weak and slender habit, its appearance does not 
offer much inducement to the cultivator; but what it wants in 
look as a plant, is amply compensated by its lovely flowers, 
which render it worthy of a place in every Orchideous collection. 
It requires to be kept in the warm Orchideous house ; and as the 
stems are weak and naturally pendulous, it should be suspended 
from the roof of the house, either attached to a block of mossy 
wood, or in an open wire basket containing loose turfy peat 
mixed with chopped sphagnum moss; or the block of wood or 
wire basket may be dispensed with, by fixing the plant on a 
sod of solid sphagnum, which remains firm and sound a long 
time, and keeps entirely free from insects and fungi. During its 
season of growth it must receive the usual stimulus of heat and 
Moisture, and shading from the mid-day sun in summer. After 
the stems have attained their growth, they will begin to lose 
their leaves: water must then be gradually withheld, and the 
plant may be more freely exposed to the sun. The flowers are 
produced on the leafless stems during the dry season, a character 
common to many of the species in the section of Dendrobium to 
which the present one belongs. It increases by lateral shoots, 
which emit roots and continue to grow while attached to the 
old stems. J. 8. 
Note on Exacum Zeyuanicunm. 
In our last Number, under Exacum Zeylanicum, Tax. 4423, it should have been 
added, that the seed was sent to the Glasnevin Garden by Glanvi 
. e Gla: ville Taylor, Esq. 
vag" oe fos after _ arrival in Ceylon, was sdreik with the Siinacty ta 
t e jungle, and having marked th i 
ities tha plac 19 g € place, returned to it when he 
