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499 Begonia Valdensium ? A.D.C, 508 Limnanthemum, n. sp. 
500 Lycopodium filiforme, Rad. 509 Baccharis thymifolia, Н. & A. 
501 Paullinia elegans, 5%, Hil. 510 Orchideæ, 
502 Orchidex. 511 Keithia villosa, Benth. var. glabrius- 
503 Melampodium, n, sp. cula, 
504 Siphocampylus coccineus, Hook. 512 Baccharis, n. sp. 
505 Polymnia, n. sp. 513 Senecio Sellowi, D.C. 
506 Тротасез 514 inaces ? not determinable, 
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507 Pavonia sepium? St, Hil. Tobacco from Assungy. 
LXL—NOTE UPON EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM. 
By JAMES BATEMAN, Esq., of Biddulph Grange. 
READ BEFORE THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, AUGUST 25, 1863. 
I have much pleasure in forwarding for exhibition before the Floral 
Committee the specimen of Epidendrum vitellinum, that accompanies this 
paper, and which I have little doubt the Committee will agree with me in 
regarding as eminently beautiful. It is not, however, with a view to the 
merits of the plant as an attractive object that I now wish to direct atten- 
tion to it, but rather in so far as it may be taken as an illustration of the 
success which has attended the adaptation of the principle of cool-treatment 
in dealing with orchids from cool countries. 
My first plants of the species were received from Oaxaea, nearly thirty 
years ago, but although in excellent condition at the time of their arrival, 
they succumbed to the intensely hot régime to which, in common with all 
other epiphytal orchids, they were subjected in those days. Other indi- 
viduals were subsequently received by Mr. Barker, some of which he 
flowered, though so weakly and imperfectly, that no true idea had ever 
been formed of the beauty of the plant until the publication of the figure 
(prepared from dried specimens) in Dr. Lindley's Sertum Orchidaceum. 
With this figure there appeared also the following remarks, which it is due 
io Dr. Lindley's prescient sagacity to quote in full :— ; 
« Epidendrum vitellinum is undoubtédly the handsomest of its genus when 
it is in a state of perfect health, a condition in which no one has yet 
seen it in this country. Let us hope that the accompanying representa- 
tion taken from specimens gathered by Mr. Hartweg on the Cumbre of 
It is, strictly speaking, an Alpine plant, rooting among Lichens, 
Jungermannias, and other inhabitants of а cool, moist climate, and never 
exposed on the one hand to a higher temperature than 75°, nor on the 
other to one lower than 45°, but undoubtedly in its season of rest en- 
during so small an amount of heat as that. Indeed the circumstance 
mentioned by Humboldt that at the elevation of 9000 ft. on the moun- 
