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and Bombay to Kurrachee is now very large. The mode of laying 

 out and cultivating a Pan garden is well worthy the attention of any 

 person desiring to be acquainted with tropical horticulture. Every- 

 thing is arranged so that the greatest possible amount of coolness, 

 shade, and moisture shall be concentrated in the spot where the 

 garden is. The cultivators usually are Brahmins bred to the work. 

 Uf P trioicum kakurwail we say nothing in this Supplement, 

 as it is a plant found in abundance within our own Presidency 

 {I'ide List No. 1). 



LXXXIX.— ORCHIDEtE, Sweet. Hort. Brit, p 381. 



THE ORCHIS TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 262. 



The exotic species of this family we approach with much hesita- 

 tion, because we so seldom find that they flower in our compara- 

 tively dry air. Intensified as this dryness is by the long prevalence 

 of the north-west winds during the fair season, and these winds 

 having blown over many thousand miles of mountain and desert eie 

 they can reach us, this cause affects our production of exotic 

 cottons not less than that of our exotic Orcliidese. Viewing these 

 circumstances, it is not surprising that the exotic Orchidese from 

 the north of India, and from the Terra Caliente of America, should 

 remain undeveloped, so that although we have been furnished 

 with supphes of many and varied species through the late Colonel 

 G. H. Jervis and His Excellency Sir George Clerk, when formerly 

 Goveinor of Bombay, we have not been able to show more than an 

 occasional and very evanescent flower. During the past season, 

 Phyas alba, Calcutta importation, flowered, and formerly Zygo- 

 petalum makaii. 



VANILLA, Linn. 



1. V Aromatica, Fr. Bau. Orch. Gen. <. 10 and 11; Bl. Rumph. 

 ], 196, t. 67 and 68. — 'I'his choice climber was originally imported 

 through the late Colonel G. R. Jervis, and presented to the Horti- 

 cultural Society. It grows vigorously at Sewrie. In the Deccan 

 gardens or at Dapoorie, the dry air renders it comparatively 

 stunted. 



XC— SCITAMINEiE. 



THE GINGER TRIBE, Linn. Nat. Syst. p 265. 



ALPINIA, Linn., Monandria Monogynia. In memory of 

 p. Alpinas, a celebrated Medical Botanist. 



1. A Nutans, Roxb. Fl. Ind. J, p 65; Globba nutans, Pers. ; 

 Renealmia nutans, Bot. Rep. t. 360 ; Rumph. Amb. 6, t. 62 and 



