Porvtar anp Geograpaican Notice. Many orchideous plants 
are among the wonders of tropical vegetation, growing attached to the 
branches of trees, yet not as true parasites which derive their nourish- 
ment from the tree on which they grow, for they live entirely by ab- 
sorbing moisture from the humid atmosphere by which they are there 
surrounded, and are properly termed Epiphytes. This species, how- 
ever, occasionally grows on stones. 
INTRODUCTION, WHERE GROWN, CuLTuRE. It was introduced into 
this country about the year 1829, by the Horticultural Society of Lon- 
don, and is a native of the wide-spread woods of Sylhet, in the East 
Indies, flowering generally in May and June. The specimen from 
which our drawing was made, flowered 3 in April, 1836, in the splen- 
where it grows attached £0 a | fale-work of dead branches, suspended 
_by‘wire, from the roof, in a en humid and warm atmosphere. In an 
instructive memoir on the cu 
by Dr. Lindley, in the 
1, of New Series, p. 42, after noticing the failures which attended the 
early attempts to establish these singular plants as inhabitants of our 
stoves, he proceeds to observe “By degrees, however, we discovered 
better means of management, and acquired more precise information 
upon the subject of their native places of growth, the substance of all 
which may be said to amount to this, that a well-drained soil, shade, a 
very high temperature, and an atmosphere nearly saturated with hu- 
midity are the conditions that are requisite to insure their successful 
cultivation, and that soil itself is of little importance to them; we have 
used common mould, lime rubbish, gravel, decayed vegetable matter, 
and moss, and all with equal success, provided the drainage was effect- 
ual and we have found all these equally useless when the drainage was 
not attended to; a cireumstance which is no doubt due to the succu- 
lent nature of the plants, and to the very imperfect means that most of 
them possess of parting with superfluous moisture, in consequence of 
the compact nature of their cuticular tissue and of the minute size, or 
small number, of stomata or evaporating pores.” 
DERIVATION or THE Names.” 
Dendrobium from Aevdpoy a tree, and Broce life, from living upon trees. Pul- 
chellum, shewy; a diminutive from pulcher, pre pre 
Synonyms, 
Denprosium pee ate timers M.S. 
Denprosium pulchellum 
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