March 2, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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Fig, 17. — A Spruce Forest on the Coast of Maine. — See page 97. 



bean, a fact which De Candolle, in his Ortgine des Plantes 

 Cullivees, does not find supported by sufficient evidence. 



Neobenthamia gracilis (t. 7221), a singular terrestrial 

 Orchid, a native of eastern tropical Africa, with long tufted 

 sparingly branched stems, which attain a height of four 



feet and which are clothed almost throughout with grassy 

 leaves, and terminate with a raceme of small white flow- 

 ers, with a short, hardly spreading perianth, and a lip 

 spreading from the base and slightly recurved above the 

 middle. Neobenthamia, a genus which serves^to com- 



