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of wind. It belongs to the triaristella group, remarkable for 

 the tails being inserted below the apex of the sepals, and not 

 a continuation of them. It was shown by Mr. Courtauld. 

 M. ochthodes (Echb. f.), with spikes of small yellow flowers, came 

 from Kew Gardens. 



The Dendrobia were not so well represented as might have 

 been expected. This was owing, doubtless, to their earlier 

 flowering period, many species being out of bloom. There were, 

 however, a good number shown, including many interesting 

 plants and some remarkably fine specimens of well-known 

 species, among which would be noted the plants of D. nobile, 

 shown by the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Prinseps. 



Of the yellow-flowered species, the most interesting were 

 D. densifkmim, Jenhinsii, chrysotoxum, D. ochreatum (Cambridge- 

 amem) and Jenkinsii, and D. Harveyanum, shown by Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, remarkable for the petals being decorated with fringes, 

 while the edge of the lip is almost, and those of the sepals quite, 

 entire. D. Brymerianum, in which the fimbriation of the lip is 

 carried to its greatest development, was shown by E. Harvey 

 and J. Southgate. D. omentum has very remarkable greenish- 

 yellow flowers, streaked with red. It belongs to the nigro- 

 hirsute section, and was shown by B. D. Knox, of Caversham, 

 and by K. "Whyte, of Lee. To the same section belongs 

 D. Jamesianum, a fine plant of which was sent by H. Low, who 

 also sent a specimen of D. Lowii, with its singular yellow and 

 red flowers, with a bearded lip prolonged at the base, so as to 

 form with the foot of the column a kind of spur. It is most 

 nearly allied to D. omentum. Specimens also were shown of 

 Falconeii, and its variety Wardianum, Bemonia, Devonianum, 

 Purishii, lituiflorum and crassinode, and rlwdopterygium. D. albo- 

 sangirineum, with its large fawn-coloured flowers with crimson 

 blotches in the throat, was shown by J. C. Duke. There 

 were also plants of D. Dalhousieanum, and mperbum vars anosmum 

 and Dearei, the latter, a beautiful white-flowered plant, shown 

 by Baron Schroder. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence showed also specimens of two very 

 interesting Australian species, but rarely seen in collections, 

 viz., D. Smillia (F. Muell), one of the dendrocoryne section, with 

 a large tuft of small rosy flowers with a green lip, borne at the 

 end of a large pseudo-bulb (it has been figured in Fitzgerald's 

 Australian Orchids), and D. tetrayonum, first found by Allan 



