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In Oncidum Forbesii, the fruit is somewhat like that of 

 Sophronitis in shape, but thicker and with more distinct ribs and 

 a shorter beak. 



Chysis bractescens has a thick sub-cylindric capsule with thick 

 blunt ridges. In Vanda insignis, the fruit is straight and thick, 

 six-sided, with no beak. The fruits of Odontoglossum Pescatorei and 

 O. radiatum have rather indistinct ridges, being elongate and 

 triangular in section. Angracum sesquipedale has a rather long 

 pyriform fruit, with indistinct ridges and no beak. In Dendrobium 

 Findleyanum the fruit is rather long-shaped but has no beak, and 

 the ridges are somewhat obscure. Aerides quinquevulnera and 

 Masdevallia tovarensis have each a short thick beakless fruit, 

 that of the former being rather large in proportion to the flower. 

 The Cattleyas and Laelias have pendulous thick and short fruits 

 with distinct beaks, and the ridges prominent and blunt, nearly 

 equal, with deep and broad depressions between them. Those of 

 Cattleya Triancc, Lmlia anceps, and albida were shown. Very 

 similar in form are the fruits of Lycaste; the ribs, however, were 

 stouter and blunter in the species shown, viz., L. Skinneri&nd 

 Deppii. 



W. Macdonald, Esq., of Perth, sent a plant of Phalamopsis 

 Stuartiana (Rchb. f.), on the roots of which three young plants 

 had appeared. This is not the first time this very unusual 

 phenomenon has appeared on a Phalsenopsis. Professor Reich- 

 enbach mentions an analogous case in a communication read at 

 the Conference, and a similar specimen was grown a short time 

 ago by Major Lendy. 



This method of reproduction is more common in dicotyle- 

 donous plants, especially in tree or shrubby plants, and is the 

 rule rather than the exception in some trees, such as the 

 Balsam Poplar. 



H. N. RIDLEY. 



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