were too imperfect to be described in tlie Genera and 

 Species of Orchideoiis plants ; but whether this plant is one 

 of the preceding, or something altogether distinct is unknown. 

 Furthermore, the plant now represented belongs to the 

 same little cluster, and appears as if it might form a fourth 

 species, unless indeed it should prove to be this D. clavatum. 

 We have had no opportunity of examining it, but Mr. 

 Herbert describes it to us in such a manner as to shew 

 that it must be different from D. Calceolaria at least. " Its 

 flowers are of a pale copper colour, veined with a redder 

 tinge, and have two brown red blotches inside the lip. The 

 spike of ten large flowers all expanded simultaneously, and 

 the progress was so rapid that only about a week or ten 

 days elapsed between its shewing bud and bursting into 

 bloom. Independently of the colour of the flowers this 

 species differs from D. Calceolaria in not having such long 

 shoots, and in having the leaves less attenuated and 

 shorter. D. Calceolaria under the same treatment makes 

 shoots above four feet long ; this plant under three feet. It 

 is curious that these Dendrobiums if they miss flowering put 

 forth a young plant instead of a spike of flowers at the point 

 of inflorescence, as D. Calceolaria is doing here now." 



