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about 3^ inches in diameter. According to a coloured drawing, com- 

 municated to Kew with a native dried specimen in 1901, by Mr. G. 

 Schneider, the flowers are rosy lilac in colour, with many crimson blotches 

 on the centre of the disc. The flowering of this fine species in cultivation 

 will be awaited with interest.— Gard. Chron., 1904, i., p. 387. 



Catasetum MONODON, Kranzl.— A Brazilian species, said to be allied 

 to C. triodon, Rchb. f., which flowered in the Royal Gardens, Munich. It 

 was collected by M. Zimmerer. The spike bears eight or ten greenish 

 flowers, each nearly two inches in diameter ; and the lip is flat, with long 

 fringes along the whole border, except the sinus of the mid lobe; while on 

 the disc, near the apex, is a compressed callus or horn, ending in a long 

 thread-like bristle.— Gard. Chron., 1904, i., p. 354. 



HABITS OF DIPODIUM. 



The handsome Dipodium pictum was recently figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine (t. 7951), when Mr. Hemsley remarked that from the incomplete 

 notes of collectors it appeared that this species and D. paludosum start in 

 the ground and grow up trees. Mr. Ridley, Director of the Singapore 

 Botanic Garden, now gives some interesting information about their habits, 

 showing that they are quite diverse in this respect {Gard. Chron., 1904, ii., 

 p. IQ>. 



" D. pictum, it appears, is a common plant in the Malay Peninsula, and 

 has a scandent habit. It inhabits woods, which may be called open woods 

 for this part of the world, where the woods are usually very dense, and is 

 generally to be found in the wetter parts of them. It is found sometimes 

 straggling on the ground, and eventually climbing up quite small trees, 

 which it encircles with its roots. It does attain the height of 5 or 6 feet 

 occasionally, but more often is 2 or 3 feet high. It is certainly not very 

 floriferous in its wild state. I have only once or twice seen it in flower 

 wild, but it blooms easily and often in cultivation, either on stocks, in pots, 

 or on trees in the garden. It is not often panicled, as it is figured, being 

 simply racemose as a rule. 



" D. paludosum, Rchb. f., on the other hand, does not climb at all, so 

 far as I am aware. It inhabits open, hot swamps, and is, I believe, always 

 terrestrial. I have never met with it myself, for though Griffith was the first 

 to find it, at Ayer Panas, in Malacca, I have sought for it in vain. I think 

 the locality there must have been turned into a rice-field, and so it has 

 been destroyed. It appears to be very rare in the Peninsula now, though 

 abundant in Labuan, and elsewhere further east." It may be added that 

 this species is figured at t. 422 of the Orchid Album. 



R. A. Rolfe. 



