Among the many valuable plants which, in the month of 
April last, I had the gratification of seeing at the rich Botanic 
* Garden at Liverpool, under the superintendance of my kind 
and valued friends the Messrs SHEPHERD, none interested me 
more than that which I have figured in the accompanying 
plate. It was cultivated, along with many other choice tropi- 
eal orchideous plants, with a degree of success which I have 
neyer before witnessed in this charming family, and this effect- 
ed by no very peculiar mode of treatment. The grand secret 
seemed to be in placing them near the light, and in supplying 
them with a considerable degree of heat and plenty of water: 
to which I may add, that those which had long and rather 
trailing stems, were slightly attached to the back wall, whence 
they appeared to derive a degree of moisture and of nonrish- 
ment which was useful to them. 
This is the second * species of this beautiful genus which 
Mr SHEPHERD is so fortunate as to have had in blossom ; and 
the individual was, as in the first instance, receivede from Dr 
Watticu of the Calentta Botanic Garden, being probably a 
native of woods in that neighbourhood. In the general struc- 
ture of its flower, the Dendrobium fimbriatum bears consider- 
able affinity with D. Pierardi; but the color of this is wholly ° 
different, being entirely of a deep and bright fulvous orange 
hue. The lip is very short, scarcely forming a tube, most ele- 
gantly fimbriated at its margins, and the two internal leaflets 
of the perianth are finely ciliated. | 
Fig. 1. Flowering stem. Fig. 2. Sterile stem, natural size. Fig. 3. Back 
view of a flower. Fig 4. Column of fructification, with spur, and a 
portion of the Germen. Fig. 5. Column of fructification, with the An-— 
ther-case separating from the top of the column, but adhering by its fi- 
lament. Fig. 6. Pollen-masses. Fig. 7. Portion of the fimbrie.—Al 
= The fret io the 1, Piererd. Bgured st. 0. of the tat volume of this work. 
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