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the same locality by Allan Cunningham in 1824, and again in 1828, and 
was enumerated by him in a list of Australian epiphytes, under the name of 
Dendrobium tortile (Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1839, Misc. p. 33), a fact apparently 
unknown to Mueller when describing the plant as D. monophyllum. A 
fine figure of it wasgiven by Fitzgerald (Austral. Orch., i. pt. 6, t. 9), the 
author remarking: ‘It is generally to be found on ‘ oak trees’ (Casuarina), 
high up among the branches, and forming dense clumps which resemble 
lily of the valley.” Cunningham found it ‘fon the upper branches of the 
loftiest trees of Flindersia australis, 100 feet high, in shaded woods.” It is 
somewhat like a Bulbophyllum in habit, having stout, woody rhizomes, 
with oblong pseudobulbs, an inch or more long, terminated by an oblong 
leaf or occasionally a pair, and erect racemes of about nine to fifteen 
greenish yellow flowers, nearly half an inch long. The racemes are rather 
one-sided, and both these and the leaves are some four to six inches long. 
The species was cultivated at Kew in 1871, but of late years has been lost 
sight of. As regards the earlier name of D. tortile—which probably refers 
to the twisting of the pedicels to one side of the raceme—it cannot now 
supersede D. monophyllum, for no description was published, and later on 
Lindley described an Indian plant as D. tortile, though, when doing so, 
he probably overlooked Cunningham’s name. The re-appearance of this 
rare Australian species in cultivation is interesting. R.A.R 
SACCOLABIUM FRAGRANS. 
A MosT remarkable little Orchid has re-appeared in cultivation. A tiny 
plant in a two-inch pot was put into my hands at the recent Holland House 
Show by M. F. Peeters, Brussels, with the remark that he obtained it from 
Upper Burma with Vanda ccerulea. Examination with a lens showed that 
it was a species of Saccolabium, but I did not remember having seen such a 
thing alive before. The plant was kindly given for the Kew collection, and 
after a little search I identified it with a drawing of Saccolabium fragrans 
made by the Rev. C. S. Parish in Moulmein. This drawing is labelled: 
“‘Moulmein, May 14th, 1873. Fragrant with the smell of violets. Strange 
to say, although this little plant grows close to my back door, 1.¢., in a sort 
of nullah just behind my house, I lived twenty years in the house before 
lighting upon it. ‘Quo minime credas gurgite piscis inest.’” It was 
described in the following year (Par. & Rchb. f. in Journ. Bot., 1874, p. 
197), and eight years later it appeared in cultivation, when an amusing note 
was written by Reichenbach (Gard. Chron., 1882, ii. p. 134): After speaking 
of its discovery by the Rev. C. S. Parish, he remarked : 
“A single plant of this curiosity was gathered on May 14th, 1873, by 
the last-named excellent Orchidist, and—horribile dictu—at a very short 
distance from the house in which he lived, I believe, eighteen years 
