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the kind possessor, who will, I hope, watch his precious unique, 

 telling us how long it lasts trilabellia. 



The second case was observed by my highly-valued cor- 

 respondent. Major Londy, both in 1884 and 1885. It is not 

 quite so evident as the just quoted (htci<lium, inasmuch as the 

 rhaltnwpsis Stuartiamt Lcmh/ono has but one normal lip, yet 

 the petals approach lips much more than petals. The blunt 

 triangular blades arc unguiculate and bear a callus over the 

 mid-base of the lamina. 



The third case is that of Pcndrobium nobile Cooksonianum* of 

 Mr. Norman C. Cookson. The flowers are very distinct from the 

 />. nobile Tollianum, having the petals very thick and hairy 

 over the base, and enjoying the colours of the lip. 



111. On Liookmanma iCwNoenrsi Pfsoatokki. 



This so-called ••genus" has proved exceedingly troublesome. 

 It was Sehlim who discovered it near Ocana ; when there were 

 fresh hunting grounds. Director Linden sent a plant to the kite 

 Peseatore, of La Celle de St. Cloud. There it has flowered. I 

 think but one flower is preserved in Dr. Lindley's collection. 

 1 have four of that typical inflorescence. Dr. Lindley took it as 

 a fresh Ciicnoches, an opinion we have seen lately reaecepted 

 by an author whose own principles should have prevented 

 him from doing so. since both leaves and bulbs are those 

 of an Acineta in our plant, while all Ci/cnovJus have them like 

 those of Ctitn.ttttim and* Mormorfts. As soon as I had obtained 

 both garden and wild-grown materials. 1 published my genus 

 Ludtlemonnio, in honour of my late friend Luddemann, who had 

 tlowered it. 



Director Linden having got what formerly they called a great 

 supply, let us say thirty plants, sent them to his correspondents, 

 and got, by-the-bye, a certain Stoicismua in having to endure the 

 most unfriendly letters of his customers, who accused him of send 

 ing Acinctos for ( V;j><7<<>\ asking for the genuine plant . I believe 

 Mr. Louis Sehlim sent a second cargo, all of which tlowered as 

 Acincttw. 1 remember having seen Mr. Keferstein, of Krollnitz, 

 near Halle, quite savage about this, my Acineta en/throjraniha, 

 that had developed out of what he had paid for as a Ci/cnoches. 

 In 1850, Director Linden, after having fully acknowledged Mr. 

 Sehliin's so-often-proved accuracy, told me all his bad ex- 

 periences, finally adding, " Je n'y vois que de feu." As to poor 



