BOTANY. 107 



WHITE DENDKOBIUM. 



A species with a small snowy flower is very abundant, 

 but has less to recommend it then either of the preceding, 

 Dendrobium crctaccum. 



TAPER-LEAVED DENDROBIUM. 



An orchid with a filiform tapering leaf is frequent in 

 the suburbs of Maulmain, and though I have never met with 

 it in blossom, an English botanist says it is the taper-leav- 

 ed dendrobium, which Lindley knew only as a New Holland 

 plant. 



Dendrobium terct [folium. 



SPOTTED SACCOLABIUM. 



One of the noblest orchids in the Provinces belongs to 

 the saccolabium, or bag-lipped genus ; the lip forming a 

 bag, or spur. The flowers are numerous, white, spotted 

 with rose-violet, and stand on little pedicils ail around the 

 stalk so as to form an elegant plume sometimes a foot lonn-, 

 which give the trees on which they grow a most princely 

 appearance. They are profusely multiplied in the neigh* 

 borhood of Maulmain, and are highly valued in England. 

 Saccolabium rctusum. 



" guttctum, 



Aerides guttatum. 



RED SACCOLABIUM. 



Another species of the same genus with rosy flowers, is 

 also very handsome and quite abundant. 

 sEceocladcs ampullacea. 

 Saccolabium rubrum. 

 Aerides ampullaccum. 

 Lindley says it can scarcely be distinguished from & 

 ampullaccum of Wallich's catalogue; 



FRAGRANT AERIDES. 



The genus aerides furnishes one of the most fragrant of 

 orchids, but it is not very abundant in our forests, 

 Aerides odoratum, 



