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were both introduced from Demerara, the former flowering with Mr. 
Bateman, and the latter with Messrs. Loddiges. Bulbophyllum barbigerum 
(t. 1942) and B. saltatorium (t. 1970), were introduced from Sierra Leone, 
by Messrs. Loddiges, the former being still one of the most remarkable 
species in cultivation, and the latter a sort of miniature edition of it. B- 
cocoinum (t. 1964) was of the same origin, and Mr. Bateman states that it 
filled the house at Hackney with the scent of a cocoa-nut. Peristeria 
cerina (t. 1953) was imported from the ‘“‘ Spanish Main,” by Mr. Knight, 
of the King’s Road, where it flowered in June, 1836. Oncidium deltoideum 
(t. 2006) flowered with W. J. Myers, Esq., of Aigburth, having been sent 
from Lima, Peru, by John Maclean, Esq., who is said to have probably 
received it from Matthews, its first discoverer. Cirrhcea obtusata (t. 2005), 
and Spiranthes bracteosa (t. 1934), both flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. 
Among the more remarkable species new to cultivation we note 
Magaclinium maximum (t. 1959) and the Mauritian Cynorchis fastigiata 
(t. 1998), both from Messrs. Loddiges, and the Cingalese Ancectochilus 
setaceus (t. 2010) from the Duke of Northumberland, at Syon House. 
One remarkable plant figured (t. 1947 A), deserves a paragraph all to 
itself. In the text (sub. t. “‘1951*”) it is called “one of the greatest 
curiosities that our gardens ever produced. . . . A plant of Monachanthus 
cristatus changing into a Monachanthus . - . and combining in its own 
proper person no fewer than three supposed genera, Myanthus, Monach- 
anthus, and Catasetum.’”’ It flowered in the collection of the Duke of 
Devonshire, in November, 1836, and was in reality a plant of Catasetum 
cristatum showing eight female flowers at the top of the inflorescence, with 
seven males underneath, and one flower in a partially intermediate con- 
dition. Lindley had observed a somewhat similar phenomenon in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden in 1826, and noted it, though afterwards he 
tells us that he doubted his own words, and believed that he had made some 
mistake. The phenomenon is now well understood, and the history of the 
question has been fully recorded (Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc., &Xvii., 
pp. 206-225, t. 8).° 
Twenty Orchids were figured in the Botan r 1 e 
of which were new, but the only remarkable one was Maxillaria Steelii 
(t. 3773), which afterwards became the type of the genus Scuticaria. Sir 
William Hosker remarked :—“ This highly interesting Orchideous plant 
ommunicated from the stove of John Moss, Esq., Otterspool, 
near Liverpool, together with a drawing by Miss Moss, from which the 
accompanying figure was made. It was introduced in July of last year 
(1836) by Matthew Steele, Esq., of Demerara.”’ : 
It is interesting to note that this volume of the Botanical Magazine was 
dedicated to James Batemen, Esq., of Knypersley Hall, Cheshire, author 
ical Magazine for 1837, three 
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