supplementary to TLncyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 505 



dent habits of the racemes from the extremities of the branches, 

 very graceful and beautiful for a long time. It delights in 

 free loam, mixed with a little sandy peat ; and cuttings in sand, 

 under a glass, in heat, root freely." {Paxt. Mag. of Bot.^ Oct.) 

 Orchiddcccc. 



2547 DENDRO'BlUjr 28526. anccps I.indl. Bot. Beg., 1239. 



Synomjme : A'porum anceps Lindl. in Wall., No. 2020. ; Hool;. Bot. Mag., 36U8. 



MACROCHI'LUS Fryatnis Knowl. & Wcstc. ; Gartl. Mag., xiii. 457. 

 Synoni/me : Milton/o spectabilis Lindl. Bot. Beg., 1992. 



Named Milton/a, in honour of Lord Fitzwilliam, by Dr. Lind- 

 ley, who observes : " I had promulgated the name of Milton/a 

 spectabilis previously to hearing that Messrs. Knowles and West- 

 cott had called the plant Macrochilus Frya/^z/^; and, as the former 

 name was published a month earlier, the latter will have to give 

 way." {Bot. Beg., Oct.) When we previously recorded this plant, 

 in p. 457.5 ^^'6 inadvertently referred to the Ftoi: Cab. for Sept., 

 instead of the Flor. Cab. for Aug. 



*CYN0'RCH IS Tliouars. The Dog Orchis. (From kuon, a dog, and orchis, an orchis.) 



♦fastigiala /./«rf/. fastigiali A 23 cu J ap G.R Isle of France '{\So5 R s.l Bot. reg. 1998. 



" This is one of the representatives, in tropical countries, of the 

 terrestrial orchises of Europe, growing in similar situations, and 

 having knobby roots of the same kind. It occurs in damp 

 places in the Isle of France, and has a smell vei'y like that of 

 the O'rchis mascula." [Bot. Beg., Oct.) 



2540. OXCI'DIUM [1835 D p.r.w Batcm. Orcli., t. i. 



22G77«. *leucocl]ilum Satern. white-lipped ^ E! or 4 au.s W. and G. spotted with R Guatemala 



O. ieucochllum appears to be not uncommon in Guatemala, 

 where it was found by Mr. Skinner, and sent to Mr. Bateman 

 in 1835, with whom it flowered in the autumn of the following 

 year. [Batem. Orch., Part I.) 



[1836 D p.r.w Batem. Orchid., t. 3. 

 226S8a. *CavendishiaKMm Batem. The Duke of Devonshire's ^2X1 or 4 ja Y. and G Guatemala 



" This is a very handsome and distinct species of Oncidium ; 

 and we have, therefore, no hesitation in naming it after a noble- 

 man whose devotion to botany and horticulture is now far too 

 well known to render it necessary for us to enlarge upon it here. 

 In a few years, we hope to see the beautiful family to which this 

 plant belongs seated in all their natural majesty on those trees 

 of which they are the proper ' incumbents,' and under the 

 shelter of the great plant stove at Chatsworth. When this grand 

 structure is completed, all the most striking vegetable forms of 

 India, Africa, and America will be seen in, perhaps, more than 

 their native luxuriance widiin its ample boundaries; and thus, 

 amidst the wildest scenery of Derbyshire, there will be found an 

 example of tropical vegetation, richer and more varied than 

 could be met with in any of those baleful latitudes themselves. 



" It will prove a very easy species to cultivate, and a veiy 

 free flowerer ; in which it seems to follow the example of O, luri- 

 dum ; but it will, we fear, long continue a scarce plant, as it 



