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A NEW DENDROBIUM FEOM SIA.M. 

 By H. N. Eidley, M.A., F.L.S. 



Dendrobium atractodes, n. sp. — Aff. T). aureo laudley, 

 pseudobulbis pluribus fusiformibus paullo complanatis, sub- 

 pedalibus ; floribus iis D. aurel tequantibus ; sepalis anguste lan- 

 ceolatis obtusis petalis latioribus, omnibiTS cereis labello ovato 

 rotundato minute pnbescenti, margine minute fimbriato, stramiueo 

 versus basin obscuriore, maculis duabus purpureis ; columna brevi, 

 viridi ; antliera roseo-tincta. Siam : introduced by Mr. Thomas 

 Christy, F.L.S. 



This phint is remarkable for the shape of the pseudobulbs, 

 which are narrowed at the base and apex, swelhug out in the 

 middle so as to be fusiform and slightly fiexuous. There were ten 

 on the plant, the longest about nine inches long and half an inch 

 thick. The only flower Avhich I have seen differs from that of 

 1). anreio)), not only in colouring, but in the more open shape of 

 the lip. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Botanical Record Club : pJianerogamic and cri/ptof/amic. Report 

 for the year 1883. By the Referees and Editor. Man- 

 chester: printed by James Collins & Co. 1884. 8vo, 

 pp. 1-76, 253-255. 



Tms Report contains, like its predecessors, much that is 

 interesting. Now that the "voucher-specimens" of the Club 

 have been transferred to the British Museum, and are thus easily 

 available for reference, the semi-private nature of these reports has 

 to a great extent been done away with, and the drawback to the 

 general usefulness of the work of the Club has been removed. 

 The editor is, we believe, Mr. F. A. Lees, although we find no 

 statement to that effect in the report itself. The preface contains 

 a reasonable complaint that the new county records of preceding 

 reports were not incorporated into the new edition of ' Topo- 

 graphical Botany.' In some cases, however, the work referred to 

 appears to have been carelessly consulted, as in the section 

 headed "Record of species not considered worthy of comital 

 enumeration in ' Topographical Botany," where, of the first six 

 plants mentioned, the distribution of four is duly recorded in 

 ' Topographical Botany,' 



A large number of the more interesting " new county records " 

 have already been published in this Journal. The occurrence of 

 Erica vayans in Bulmershe Park, Earley, Berks, " in which park 

 are many planted conifers," should hardly appear under this 

 heading. The differences of opinion upon certain plants finds 

 plentiful illustration : thus, in the Uaniinculus coxfercuidcs of 

 Rescobie Loch (see Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 344), Mr. Druce sees only 

 " a depauperated form of II. circi)i(itus.'' Mr. Baker contents 



