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pale purple, has its edge fringed or bearded with numerous, long, 

 slender, thread-like, white segments, so disposed as to cause the 

 labellum to resemble the crest of some little bird. Discovered 

 " by Mr. John Henchman [see his narrative in p. 113 — 118.] 

 growing in the clefts of trees in shady situations. It was first 

 sent us [Dr. Lindley] in February last by Mr. Low [of the 

 Clapton Nursery], witli whom it first flowered ; but almost im- 

 mediately after we received it from Chatsworth, and from the 

 garden of Mr. Willmore of Oldford, near Birmingham." {Bot. 

 Meg., August.) 



2547. DENDRO'BIUM. CD p.r.w Bot. reg. 1779 



221 01 a cupreum Herbert coppev-coloured-perianihed £ 22 or 2^ jn.jl Pa. Cop East Indies 1825? 



" Its flowers are of a pale copper colour, veined with a redder 

 tinge, and have two brown-red blotches inside the lip. The 

 spike of ten large flowers;" these " all expanded simul- 

 taneously. This species differs from D. Calceolaria, independ- 

 ently of the colour of the flowers, in not having such long shoots, 

 and in havinjj the leaves less attenuated and shorter. D. Cal- 

 ceolaria, under the same treatment, makes shoots above 4 ft. long; 

 this plant under 3 ft." 



" It is curious that these Dendrobiums, if they miss flowering, 

 put forth a young plant instead of a spike of flowers at the point 

 of inflorescence, as D. Calceolaria is doing here now [midsum- 

 mer, 1834]." {Ho?i. and Rev. TV. Herbert, SpofForth, in Bot. 

 JR.eg., August. This gentleman has supplied the drawing figured : 

 Dr. Wallich had sent, in about 1825, the kind to him.) 



25G9. ANGRMCUM. [reg. 1781 



distichum X/Mff/. tvro-rovied-leaved £ [Z3 cu J OW Sierra Leone 1834? D p.r.w Bot 



Stems 3 in. to 4 in. high, in a little group or tuft, invested 

 with short, recurved, blunt leaves, which are disposed in two rows, 

 and imbricate each other closely, and are so far folded, that the 

 base of one seems to rise out of the bosom or channel of the 

 one next below it. Flowers milk-white, scentless, small. In its 

 herbage " neat and pretty, . . . but having no striking beauty in 

 its flowers." Imported by Messrs. Loddiges. [Bot, Beg., August.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 

 FRANCE. 

 Paris, Rue des Vignes, N'o. 5. a Chaillot, ce 25. Avril, 1835. — I happened to 

 be absent scheming out several places when your letter of November last came 

 to hand ; but as soon as I returned I sent, as you desired, a short list of several 

 trees that I had seen, and of many I had planted in different gardens, now 

 mostly forming fine trees. There are none very scarce, or so rare as I could 

 wish, as there are few people in France who like to spend money on rare 

 exotic plants; and very few places which, as you observe, can be called gar- 

 denesque; which is certainly a new term, and a very just one, instead of pic- 

 turesque. A great many remarks may be made upon the difficulties to be 



