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many conifers, on t]ie slope Bignoniaceae have been planted, and 

 along one of the side roads Bronieliads are gronped together. 

 Various snecnlents such as Agaves. Cadi and Sfapelias form one 

 division of the garden. 



In the orchid honse I noticed among others Apostasla inida, 

 Calaiifhe nihetis and ('. CeciJiar, CypripedUim rWiolarc, C niv- 

 cum^ C. llol-evae, C. coiicolor and ('. purpnrntHin, Cattleyas, 

 snch as C. Gasl-clliana. and (\ TrUuuie, Dendrohlinn fiar'id^ihnn, 

 tuherifenim and TrcacJtei-iaiuiin . as well as the D. DaJlioiisiea- 

 luiDt from Singapore. Phalaeuopsh graiidiflord was there in 

 quantities, Eria species, among them E. aeervata. E. (innciiiaca, 

 E. forihunda and E. liyacintlwldes. many doodyearas. Spathog- 

 lottis V\'niyi. and RhoiaidJicnt Jiistnontca are some of the other 

 orchids in this house, aduiired by every tourist who ])asses 

 through Singa]X)re on his way east or west. 



Figure 20. Vyrtostachiift lakka Becc, in the Sinoapore Botanic fJaiden. 



Out of doors orchids are i»"rowing in manv i)arts of the gar- 

 den, and among these I noticed various Arundinas, Bhenanthe- 

 ras and AnaechlocliUi, Micros! ylis cnprea, the Siamese Hermena- 

 ria columhae, and the new Dendrohi\im Foxii froui the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



