supplementary to the Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 137 



*SCHOMBU'RGKI.4 



marginata Lindl. bordered ^ 23 or 4 au.s R.Y Surinam 1834. D. trees Sert. Orch. 13 



This very elegant plant was figured by Dr. Lindley, from dried specimens, 

 and a drawing from Surinam ; but it has since flowered in England, in the col- 

 lection of Thomas Brocklehurst, Esq., of the Fence, near Macclesfield. 

 " This epiphyte grows abundantly near the town of Paramaribo, in Surinam, 

 in an avenue of very fine trees of a species of Erythrina," which grows 60 or 

 80 feet high, and has a very rough bark. The epiphyte is generally found in 

 the first fork of this tree ; which, from its being commonly placed in the coffee 

 plantations, as a nurse to the young trees, has received from the inhabitants 

 the popular name of Coffee Mamma. The Schomburgkia will " not flower in 

 a pot filled with dead wood and mould," but succeeds perfectly well either on 

 a living tree or on a rotten branch. In its native state, its flower stalk is fre- 

 quently 4 ft. high, branching, and covered with flowers. During the dry sea- 

 son, it will bear intense heat without injury. (Sert. Orchid., part Hi.) 



3573. 2530n. CYCNO'CHES [Orch. 16 



chlorochllon Klotzsch ? green-lipped J* 23 or 2 jn.jl G Demerara 1838. D p.r.w. Sert 



" This noble species" was introduced from Demerara by Messrs. Loddiges ; 



but it had been before " sent to Berlin, in 1836, from Maracaybo, bv M. Mo- 



ritz," and described by Dr. Klotzsch. It differs from Cycnoches ventricosum, 



" in the flowers being much longer, the raceme shorter and less graceful, the 



sepals and petals broader and not so acute ; and especially in the form of the 



lip, which is nearly sessile, obovate, and acute, not ovate and acuminate, green, 



not white, with the broad green callosity at the base far larger, and differently 



formed. The flowers are from 5 in. to 8 in. in diameter, and are deliciously 



fragrant." (Sert. Orch., part iv.) 



2547. DENDRCmUM [18 



cffirulescens Wall, bluish ^f 23 or 2 ap. B.P Khoseea 1837. D trunks of trees Sert. Orch. 



This species, in foliage and general appearance, resembles D. nobile, but 

 the flowers are very different. " The sepals and petals have a delicate tinge 

 of very pale bluish lilac, especially on the back, and their form is more slender 

 and graceful." The sepals are tinged with deep purple at their tips, and slightly 

 pitted over, so as to have a tessellated appearance. The petals are coloured 

 like the sepals, butrather darker. This species was discovered by Mr. Gibson 

 on the Khoseea Hills, at an elevation of 4000 ft. ; growing on rocks and the 

 trunks of trees, with thirty or forty flowers on a stem. It flowered at Chats- 

 worth in April, 1838. (Sert. Orch., partiv.) 



2540. ONCI'DIUM [3705 



*Forbesrt Hook. Mr. Forbes's £ 23 or 1 o S.Y Organ Mountains 1837. D p.r.w Bot. mag . 



" A very rare inhabitant of the Organ Mountains, discovered by Mr. Gard- 

 ner in 1837." It blossomed at Woburn Abbey, in October, 1838 ; and Sir 

 W. J. Hooker has named it in honour of Mr. Forbes ; " by whose judicious 

 care so many rarities, both of Mr. Gardner and of other collectors, have been 

 brought to a high degree of perfection." The species is nearly allied to O. 

 crispum, but it differs in the colour of the flowers, and the size of the panicle. 

 (Bot. Mag., Feb.) 



2555. POLYSTA'CHYA [Bot. mag. 3707 



grandiflora Lindl.", MSS. large-flowered £ 23 cu £ o G.P Sierra Leone 1837. D p.r.w 



A native of Sierra Leone, which flowered in the stove of John Allcard, Esq., 



of Strafford Green, near London, in October, 1838. Sir W. J. Hooker had 



placed this plant in the genus Maxillaria, till he was informed by Dr. Lindley 



that it belonged to Polystachya. (Bot. Mag., Feb.) 



3597. 2530«. MONACHA'NTHUS [mag. 3708 



fimbriatus Gardner MSS. fringed £ 23 cu 1 n[ I G. W Pernambuco 1837. D p.r.w. Bot. 



A curious-looking plant, with a yellowish green flower, the hood-like label- 

 lum being fringed with white. It agrees, " in general habit, and in its mode 

 of inflorescence," with M. viridis ; but it differs from that species " in its 

 slender and more tapering pseudo-bulbs, and the many-flowered scape ; and, 

 still more remarkably, in its three-lobed fringe and labellum, and the excavated 



