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A little epiphyte, forming part of the noble collection of 

 plants imported sometime since from the East Indies, by 

 His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, and now preserved at 

 Chatsworth. It has small, pale, yellow-ochre coloured 

 flowers, without anything striking about them. It flowered 

 in the beginning of April. 



54. DENDROBlUM candidum. Wall. Mss. 



D. candidum ; caulibus erectis flexuosis teretibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis apice 

 obliquis obtusis, pedunculis axillaribus erectis bifloris, sepalis patulis latera- 

 libus basi parum productis, petalis conformibus, labello ovato-lanceolato 

 obtuso medio barbato supra basin calloso lateribus erectis cucullatis. 



For flowers of this 1 am indebted to His Grace the Duke 

 of Devonshire, who sent them to me in the beginning of 

 April ; I have since been favoured by Mr. Paxton with a 

 sketch of the plant. It was found by Mr. Gibson, his Grace's 

 collector in India, at Nungclow, on the north side of the 

 Khoosea Hills, growing on rocks, sand, and decayed trees. 

 The flowers, which are pure white, are most exquisitely 

 scented. The habit of the plant is that of Dendrobium nobile ; 

 that is to say, erect, not pendulous as in D. Pierardi and 

 that race. The stems are about a foot high, and lose the 

 principal part of their leaves before flowering. 



55. OCTOMfiRtA gracilis. Loddiges Mss. 



O. gracilis ; folio lineari-carinato apiculato recurvo, floribus paucis fasciculatis, 

 labelli emarginati lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis. 



An inconspicuous species of this genus, having flowers 

 very like those of 0. Baueri, but smaller and with a diffe- 

 rently shaped lip, and very narrow, channelled, recurved 

 leaves. It was received by Messrs. Loddiges from Rio 

 Janeiro. 



56. ONCIDIUM tetrapetalum. Gen.frSp.Orch.198. 



A small plant of this beautiful little species, imported 

 from Jamaica by John Henry Lance, Esq. has lately flowered 

 in the garden of the Horticultural Society. It proves to 

 have triquetrous leaves, and therefore has been arranged in 



