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coming.” Very droll, but Burmah is a warm 
country for jests of the kind. Thus it happened 
occasionally that he beheld his own discomfiture, 
and rows ensued at the Mission-house. At length 
Mr. Sander addressed a formal petition to the 
Austrian Archbishop, to whom the missionaries 
owed allegiance. He received a sympathetic 
answer, and some assistance. 
From the Ruby Mines also comes a Dendrobium 
so excessively rare that I name it only to call the 
attention of employés in the new company. This 
is D. rhodopterygium. Sir Trevor Lawrence has or 
had a plant, I believe ; there are two or three at 
St. Albans ; but the lists of other dealers will be 
searched in vain. Sir Trevor Lawrence had also 
a scarlet species from Burmah ; but it died even 
before the christening, and no second has yet been 
found. Sumatra furnishes a scarlet Dendrobe, D. 
Forstermanni, but it again is of the utmost rarity. 
Baron Schroeder boasts three specimens—which 
have not yet flowered, however. From Burmah 
comes D. Brymerianum, of which the story is brief, 
but very thrilling if we ponder it a moment. For 
the missionaries sent this plant to Europe without 
a description—they had not seen the bloom, doubt- 
less—and it sold cheap enough. We may fancy 
Mr. Brymer’s emotion, therefore, when the striking 
