300 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



Certain Dendrobiums. — A figure and description of Dendro- 

 bium Pierardz Rox. are published in the Bot. Reg., May, t. 1 756. 

 Dr. Lindley has there noted certain marks of distinctness 

 between it and D. cucullatum Br., which he had, in his Gen. and 

 Sp. Orch., deemed identical. He has " since had an opportunity 

 of comparing D. Pierardz and cucullatum, side by side, in the 

 utmost perfection, in the stove of the Messrs. Loddiges ; where 

 these lovely species flowered, in great splendour, in Jan. [1835]; 

 forming festoons 2 ft. or 3 ft. long, quite covered with the most 

 delicate pink and yellow blossoms." Dr. Lindley has appended to 

 his account of D. Pierardz, and noticeofD. cucullatum, distinctive 

 descriptions of certain species allied to these, most of which had 

 not been previously made known to botanists. These are : ochre- 

 atum Li7idL.f a beautiful plant, flowers expanded, 3 in. across, 

 pale, labellum spotted with purple ; inhabits Chittagong. Cun- 

 ninghamm Lindl., nearly allied to biflorum Swz. ; Mr. Richard 

 Cunningham had obtained the specimen described in New Zea- 

 land, near the sea, where he had found the species upon the 

 trunks of a species of Callistemon which Mr. Allan Cunningham 

 has named ellipticus. Biflorum Swz. redescribed from specimens 

 received from Mr. Mathews, " who found it in Otaheite, hanging 

 from the branches of trees." GYi^ihidnnm Lindl. described 

 from a specimen communicated by W. Griffith, who has given, as 

 its habitat, trees in the Burman country : " a beautiful species, 

 with much of the appearance of D. aggregatum." Extinctorium 

 Lindl. described from a specimen communicated by W. Griffith, 

 who has given, as its habitat, trunks of Careya arborea, in moist 

 places, in the Burman country : its side sepals have their bases 

 lengthened into a process resembling an extinguisher (extincto- 

 rium). " This is next D. pusillum Blume." It is not stated 

 whether a living plant of any of these has been received. [Bot. 

 Reg., May.) 



LEPA'NTHES Swz. {Lepos, bark, or lepis, small, anthos, flower ; because the plants of this 



genus have very small flowers, and grow upon the bark of trees. — 

 Lindley.) 20. 1. Sp. 1. — 



tridentkta St^Jx. three-toothed-^/'rf. J^ 23 cu ^ ja P.Y Jamaica 1834? D moss Bot.reg.1762 



One of the most pygmy of Orchideae. The species of Le- 

 panthes have the habit altogether of the species of Pleurothallis. 

 L. tridentata is the species which has first been seen alive in 

 Europe. It is a native of the highest parts of the mountains of 

 Jamaica, where it is found growing on the bark of trees among 

 mosses. In Britain, it can only be preserved alive with great 

 care, by being placed under a bell-glass, among damp moss, in 

 a cool part of a stove. Dr. Lindley received it from Messrs. Lod- 

 diges, in Jan. Its stems are in little tufts or groups ; they vary 

 in stature from 2 lines to 2 in : each bears a leaf which is ovate- 

 oblong, 1 J in. long, thick, and seems, to the naked eye, to end in 

 a sharp point ; but this point consists of three teeth ; those of the 



