slenderness of tlie corolla clearly separate it from that species. There is also a singular tendency on the pai^t of the 
loaves to assume a whorled arrangement, as in P. cornifoUum and its allies, especially a Macao species named 
P, paucijltmim, by Messrs. Hooker and Amott, but the calyx of that species is nearly as long as the corolla, and the 
petals are represented as spreading away from each other instead of being so rolled up as to resemble a monopetalous 
corolla. As yet this species has been treated as a greenhouse plant, but from its appearance there is reason to believe 
that it may stand out of doors against a wall. It grows freely in rough sandy peat under pot culture, but will probably 
eed in common garden soil. It strikes freely from cuttings in silver^sand under a bell-glass without much heat 
Although it makes no show in a greenhouse, yet should it prore hardy, its neat foliage and sweet-scented flowers will 
render it a desirable plant for a conservative wall. — Joum, of Ilort. Soc voL i. 
GiL^CUM 
Hope. Blossoms in July. 
Lindlei/. A white-flowered Epiphyte from the Cape of Good 
Messrs 
(Fig. 199.) 
The Cape of Good Hope is not the place from wliich we should expect to receive Epipliytes, the numerous Orchids 
of that country being nearly ail strictly terrestrial. Nevertheless a small number of such species are now known 
to botanists chiefly through the discoveries of M. Drege, an indefatigable German collector. These plants all come from 
a jungly s^vampy district lying far to the east of Cape Town, and extending northwards at the back of Algoa Bay 
There, m the district of Albany, this plant grows on trees; at a place called Kopje, on limestone hills, it also appears growing 
on the roots of shrubs. It has a stiff hard stem, from two to six inches high, clothed with tough, leathery distichout 
leaves, bluntly and unequally two-lobed at the point. The flowers, which are pure white, appear in lateral horizontal 
racemes, each proceeding from a broad membranous bract, which is about as long as the iuternodes The sepak petals 
and lip are almost exactly alike in form 
which is much longer than the lip. In tli 
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plants 
