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* Inquiry as to the exact locality of their production has resulted in 
fixing it at a place called Assats (sometimes RE which isin the pro- 
vince of Soos, at no grest distance (some say a day, some a day) from 
the town of Tarudant, and on or near the bank of the great Soosriver. It 
is stated, with regard to this interesting place, that there is a very 
ancient Hebrew graveyard there, and ore chards known | y the names of 
Moses, Aaron, David, &e., also that the authority of the Moorish 
Government is not respected there. 
* Jewish informants here have said that these * troons? come from no 
other place but Assats; but they have been unable to explain how thefaith- 
ful in many far distant parts of the world manage to provide themselves 
with these necessary emblems—-the | shipment of which from Mogador in 
1883 amounted to 110 eos containing 9,024 specimens of this 
interesting vegetable production 
Ina m M report [Foreign Office, Annual Series, 1891, No. 
874], Mr. Payton adds statistics showing that the value of citrons 
shipped from mom in 1890 was 5921. 
CCCLXXXVIIL.—NEW ORCHIDS: DECADE 9.* 
81. Dendrobium Hildebrandii, Rolfe ; pseudobulbis elongatis robustis 
subteretibus demum suleatis, foliis elliptico-oblongis obtusis v. ineequaliter- 
bidentatis coriaceis decidius, racemis axillaribus suberectis 3—4-floris basi 
vaginis tubulosis tectis, bracteis ovato-oblongis obtusis concavis, sepalis 
oe ea apiculatis subtortilibus, petalis elliptico- oblongis 
apiculatis subtortilibus, labello brevissime unguiculato lim 
suborbicnlari obtuso, disco velutino, columna brevissima, mento kare 
obtus 
Mn a States 1,500 ft. alt. ; H. H. Hildebrand. 
Pseudobulbi 11-2 ped. alti. Folia 4-5 poll. longa, 14-12 poll. lata. 
Racemi 2-3} poll. longi. Bractee 3 lin, longi. Pedicelli un poll. 
ongi. Sepala 16-18 lin. longa, 4 lin. lata. Petala 6 lin. lata. 
pestem 16 lin. Pedes. 15 lin. latum. Columna 2 lin. longa. 
entum 34 lin. lon 
E handsome od Alicia] in the Shan States by H. H. Hildebrand, 
Esq., in April 1893, and sent to Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of Clapton, 
together with living plants, which flowered in their establishment a 
year later. It has the general habit of a strong D. signatum, Rchb. f., 
lip deep etre vel with a broad light die margin. Mr. Hildebrand 
collected three different forms; one with sepals and petals pale green 
and lip sulphur dore one with sepals and petals ereamy pink and the 
lip yellow, and a third like the last, with the addition of two dark 
chocolate blotehes in p satt He observes that it grows in mag- 
nificent huge masses, and o of the plants he counted upwards of 
,900 blooms, The old pebadcbnibs show it to be as floriferous as 
D. nobile, Lindl. 
* Phaius roseus, Rolfe, described at p.4 of the last volume as doubtfully a 
native of West tropical cera is now known to be from Lower Burma, where i 
been collected by Mr. Boxa 
