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wall, with no protection whatever. Of these, however, the 

 spikes are not yet so fully developed. Some specimens of 

 that very fine Satyrium, the " carneum," have also flowered 

 (though very pale in colour) in garden pots of bog earth, 

 exposed as in the case of the S. candidum ; some have come 

 to very handsome heads, though far inferior to what they do 

 with a very little care in South Africa, where specimens 

 have been obtained with 120 or more flowers in the spike. 



" The Satyrium papillosum was brought over in a box 

 of Cape soil in a growing state, and though generally ex- 

 posed, in London, has been occasionally brought in doors in 

 cold nights ; and, since the flower-stalks have become fully 

 developed, has been entirely kept in the house, and some- 

 times placed near a fire. 



" Sat3^rium chrysostachyum (a fine orange-flowered kind) 

 similarly imported, has grown well and gone through its 

 course, but without throwing up a single flower-stalk. It is 

 now dormant, but the new tubers are satisfactorily formed, 

 and promise well for next year." 



155. SATYRIUM carneum. 

 Brown in liort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 196. 



This is the very fine species alluded to by Sir John 

 Herschel in the previous note. It has been well figured in 

 the Botanical Magazine, t. 1512. In herbaria it is very 

 rare. I have only seen one wild specimen, collected on 

 sandy hills about Groenevalei, at the Cape of Good Hope, by 

 Drege. It bears large, oblong, dense spikes of whitish 

 flowers tinged with pink, and is in all respects a beautiful 

 plant. It is not a little singular that so conspicuous a species 

 should have been overlooked by all the writers upon the 

 South African Flora. 



156. DENDROBIUM denudans. 



Don Prodr.fi. nep. 34. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 84. 



This species was received by His Grace the Duke of 

 Devonshire upon Mr. Gibson's return from his Indian mis- 

 sion ; and having been subsequently imparted to others, has 



