A spike and a leaf of this remarkable and rare orchideous 
plant were most liberally communicated to me in the month of 
February, from the only individual specimen in the Liverpool 
Botanic Garden, by my often mentioned friend Mr SHEPHERD, 
who sent me at the same time a sketch of the whole plant. 
To Mr SuHeruHerD, the Cymbidium bituberculatum was 
given by Mr Jos. Cooper, Botanic Gardener to Lord Mit- 
TON at Wentworth House, Yorkshire, who received it from 
Nepaul, of which country it is a native, at the hands of Dr 
Carey, and who has thus the honour of introducing it to our 
gardens. It flowered with Mr Cooper, for the first time, du- 
ring the summer of last year. 
I am quite aware that there exist, both in its habit and in 
the character of its fructification, sufficient grounds for making 
of this plant a distinct genus from Cymbidium ; yet, without 
a more intimate acquaintance with the exotic Orchidew than 
T have the happiness to possess, I prefer allowing it to remain 
as one of an old established family, to incurring the risk of bur- 
dening this already complex department of the system with in- 
correctly-defined genera. 
Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. Fig. 2. Front view of the same. Fig. 3. 
Lip. Fig. 4. Column. Fig. 5. Anther-case. Fig. 6. Pollen-masses. 
Fig. 7. Two of the pollen-masses separated.—All more or less magnified. 
