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medicinal use by the Chinese. I saw several other Dendrobes, one with 
whitish flowers, resembling D. crepidatum, and a variety of D. nobile in 
the mountains of the north. I also saw a fine variety of Phaius grandifolius, 
cultivated in gardens, and a beautiful white Calanthe, with flowers twice as 
large as those of C. veratrifolia, of which it may be a variety. Among 
the most remarkable plants is a Vanilla, supposed by the Japanese 
botanists to be a variety of Vanda Griffithii, which we found at about 
2000 feet in the north, growing over the trunk of Libocedrus, and having 
thick, fleshy leaves and stems, ten to fifteen feet long, with pink and 
green flowers.” 
THECOSTELE ALATA. 
Tuis very interesting Orchid has been submitted to Kew for determination 
from the collection of the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, Ashton Wold, Oundle, 
with the record that it was imported from Borneo. It was originally 
described by Roxburgh, in 1814, as a native of the forests of Chittagong, 
under the name of Cymbidium alatum (Hort. Bengal, p. 63; Fl. Ind., 
iii. p. 459), and an original drawing is preserved at Kew: In 1857 a Javan 
plant, which had been collected by Zollinger, was described by Reichenbach 
as a new genus, under the name of Thecostele Zollingeri (Bonplandia, v. 
p- 37), and later it was found in Moulmein by Parish, who sent plants to 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, with whom it flowered (Rehb. f. Xen. 
Orch., ii. p. 133, t- 147). Then it was collected in Borneo by Mottley, and 
later by two or three other collectors. It was ultimately discovered that 
these two plants were identical, and it was then enumerated under the 
name of Thecostele alata (Par. & Rchb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc., xxx. p. 135, 
t. 29), on the principle of retaining the oldest specific name. It is much 
like a Bulbophyllum in habit, having clusters of ovoid one-leaved 
pseudobulbs, and the flowers are borne in drooping racemes, and are much 
spotted with purple on a whitish ground. From the structure of the 
pollinia, column wings and lip, the genus is evidently allied to Acriopsis. 
Four other species of the genus are now known, as follows :— 
T. MaineAyi, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind., vi. p. 20 ; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2118. 
—Native of Malacca. 3 
T. Quingueripa, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind., vi. p. 20; Hook. Ic. Plant., 
t. 2119.—Native of Malacca. 
T. Wrayi. Collabium Wrayi, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 784; Hook. 
Ic. Plant., t. 2065. T. maculosa, Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc., ser. 2, ii. p. 374. 
—Native of the Malay Peninsula. 
T. sEcuNDA, Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., xxxi. p. 299; Mater. Fl. Malay 
Penins., i. p. 190.—Native of the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 
R. A. RoiFe, 
