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Cunningham. This plant is remarkable for its four-angled 

 pseudo-bulbs, and its starlike, whitish flower, with narrow, 

 acuminate petals and sepals, very unlike those of any other 

 species but those of D. amboinense (Hook). The unusual form of 

 the flower suggests a mimicry of the Spider Orchids of Australia, 

 Caladenia Patersonii, &c. 



A beautiful pan of D. FytcManum from Southern India was 

 shown by R. Ewing, of Cheshunt, with thirty leafless pseudo- 

 bulbs, thickly covered at the summits with the delicate white 

 flowers. One hybrid dendrobium only was shown, viz., 

 D. rhodostoma, a cross between D. sanf/uinolentum and Huttonii. 

 Specimens were exhibited by J. Cypher and Sir Trevor Lawrence. 



Bulbophylla, as a rule, are not popular plants, owing to the 

 small size of their flowers ; but specimens of the large-flowered 

 section, Sareo podium, were shown. Sir Trevor Lawrence 

 brought B. siamense and Dearei, which latter was also shown by 

 C. L. Ingram, and from the Duke of Devonshire came B. Lobbii. 



Perhaps the most curious plant in the exhibition was 

 Mc<jaclinium oxi/jtterum (Lindley), the only species shown from the 

 Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. The genus is allied to Bulbo- 

 phyllum, especially to the clavatum section, having, like the 

 species of that section, the rachis dilated into a swollen mass in 

 which the flowers seem imbedded. In the Megaclinium the 

 rachis is flattened, with wavy edges, curiously marbled with 

 purple, about three inches long and nearly one in diameter. On 

 each side of it is a row of small dull-coloured flowers. It is a 

 native of Western Tropical Africa, and was one of the very few 

 species shown from that continent. 



From Kew Gardens came Cirrhopetalum ftmbriatum, the only 

 representative of that curious but not showy genus. It bore 

 several umbels of small dull-coloured flowers, arising on slender 

 peduncles from the bases of the leafless pseudo-bulbs ; and the 

 same establishment sent a plant of Panuea unijlora, a humble, 

 inconspicuous species, with solitary dull ochreous flowers, a 

 native of the Himalayas, perhaps more correctly referred to the 

 genus Ccelogyne. The large genus, Eria, was illustrated by one 

 species, and that not a conspicuous one, viz., E. excavata. It 

 was sent frow Kew. 



Ccelia Baueriana is a curious West Indian plant, with short, 

 compact spikes of small white flowers beautifully scented, and 

 overtopped by the rather thin, long and narrow leaves. There 



