supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 515 



been observed beyond the tropic, both at Moreton Bay and 

 still farther southward at Hunter's River, growing upon the 

 principal limbs of several of the Eucalypti in the dry open 

 shadeless forest. The third has been found upon barren hills, 

 naturally clear of timber; upon the banks of the Brisbane River 

 at Moreton Bay, where the plant forms tufts on bare rocks 

 exposed to the full heat of the sun, which, during nine months 

 of the year, is very considerable upon that part of the coast. 

 Two additional instances given are, Gun ma australis and Earina 

 mucronata. G. australis grows upon the branches of shrubs in 

 Emu Bay, in Van Diemen's Land, in about 41° s. lat. and 146° 

 e. long. E. mucronata occurs as far to the northward as 35° s. 

 lat., in humid forests, at the Bay of Islands, in New Zealand ; 

 and exists, also, in abundance, in the very (permanently) damp 

 woods which clothe the shores of Dusky Bay, lat. 45° 45' s., on 

 the western side of the larger or middle island of New Zealand. 

 Considering the low rate of temperature which prevails in the 

 southern hemisphere, as compared with the northern in corre- 

 sponding latitudes, the station of E. mucronata is not naturally 

 different from the damper parts of the south-west coast of 

 Ireland. 



In relation to the subject of these remarks, we remember no- 

 ticing, in"p. 280., that Mr. Knight Avas, in May last, having a new 

 house built for the culture of Orchideag. This is now com- 

 pleted ; and supplies, we have been told, in four distinct com- 

 partments, a heated atmosphere and a cold one, a light one and 

 a shaded one. 



2481. O'RCHIS. 

 22481a folibsa Sol. . leafy-spilced ^jM or 1 my P Canary I. 1829? D p.s.moss Bot. reg. 1701 



A fine species of O'rchis, native of woods and copses in 

 Madeira ; very much like the European O. latifolia, from which 

 it differs in being larger in all its parts, &c. The specimen 

 figured was supplied by Messrs. Young and Penny, nursery- 

 men, Milford, near Godalming, Surrey ; in whose collection, so 

 rich in Canary plants, the species has been some time culti- 

 vated ; and with whom it succeeds extremely well, either in 

 well-drained pots, or a turf pit, in a soil composed of the turfy 

 portions of heath mould, with a mixture of moss and sand. 

 (Bot. Beg., Sept.) 



2540. ONCI'DIUM. TBot. reg. 1699 



12693a ampliatum Lindl. broad-tipped £ tSl or 2 mr Y Central America 1832? D p.r.vv 



In its pseudo-bulb and leaf like O. papilio ; but very distinct 

 in its flowers, and the disposition of them, These are rather 

 small, very numerous, and disposed in clusters along the branches 

 of an upright panicle : the sepals are yellow, with the labellum 

 white at the back. The figure is derived from a plant possessed 

 by II. Harrison, Esq. (Bot. Beg., Sept.) 



