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is supposed to be the true " Thus." I do not consider myself 

 qutilitied to offer any opinion in that respect. The wood 

 makes excellent fuel ; the perfume it diffuses whilst burnino- 

 is extremely agreeable to most persons. I do not know that 

 it is applied to any other purpose. — Extract of a letter from 

 M. S. Melville, Esq. of Stirling, to James Bandinel, Esq. ; 

 dated March 2nd, 1839. 



25. CCELOGYNE ocelfata. (Gen. et Sp. Orch. 40.) 



This beautiful plant has just flowered imperfectly with 

 Messrs. Loddidges, who imported it from India. The sepals 

 and petals are pure white ; the lip is also white, but it has 

 two very bright orange yellow spots on each lateral lobe, 

 and two others smaller, and of the same colour at the base of 

 the middle lobe, besides which there are some lateral streaks 

 of brown. The column is bordered with brilliant orange 

 yellow. The crests of the lip are three, which converge 

 towards the base of the middle lobe, and there the lateral ones 

 diverge again over a pair of convexities, beyond which they 

 disappear ; on each side of them, at the base of the said con- 

 vexities, and on the outside, is an additional short curled 

 crest. The flowers grow in erect racemes about six inches 

 long, and are themselves an inch or more long. 



26. DENDROBfUM lingucefo'rme. (Swartz.) 



I have formerly received this curious plant in flower from 

 various collections, but never in such perfection as from the 

 garden of Richard Harrison, Esq. of Aighburgh, who cul- 

 tivates it upon the decayed branch of a tree. It inhabits 

 the country near Sydney, in New South Wales, where it was 

 found by the earliest Botanists who visited that colony. It 

 has hard, thick tongue-shaped leaves, lying flat upon the 

 rhizoma which creeps upon the rock or tree it grows on ; 

 they have the texture of an Aloe, and probably indicate that 

 the species does not inhabit damp shaded places, but rather 

 such hot dry situations as Mr. Cunningham assigns to 

 Dendrobium cemulum and undulatum ; see Bot. Register, 

 fol. 1699, for observations upon the culture of these plants. 

 The flowers are greenish white, with long slender sepals and 

 petals, and appear from the young ends of the rhizomata. 

 They have no smell, nor any feature of beauty. 



