'' Found growing' from tlie crevices of sandstone rocks, 

 on the eastern side of Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, where 

 it was observed in flower in October 1834." — R. C. 



*' The above is extracted from a letter from my brother, 

 Mr. Richard Cunningham, dated August 2, 1834. He adds, 



" I send you in a bottle a Dendrobium, whicli, not fin(h'iig 

 noticed in either printed or manuscript enumerations in my 

 possession I have called Cassythoides, from the pnmci facie 

 resemblance it has to Uie genus Cassytha, not only in its 

 leafless character and short racemes of flowers, but in its 

 peculiar chocolate bronze or japanned papulose stems — it 

 may be found, that it also resembles it in its climbing 

 propensities." 



It is not a little remarkable that so highly curious a plant 

 as this should so long have been overlooked, although a 

 native of a locality which, as Mr. Allan Cunningham remarks, 

 has doubtless been traversed by Botanists of many countries 

 in Europe, who have visited Port Jackson in ships of discovery 

 since the Colony was founded in January 1788. viz., Frencli, 

 Spanish, German, Swedish, Russian, &c., besides many of 

 our own countrvmen. 



