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now enabled to show that it is not only really a Dendrobium, but one of a most remarkable and brilliant nature. It was 

 imported from Tillicherry. 



At the end of long slender stems, clothed with short black hairs, appear rich orange-coloured flowers in pairs. Their 

 sepals and petals are linear, concave, obtuse, curved like so many horns, the petals being broader at the base than the 

 sepals, and the lateral sepals forming a very short obtuse chin. The lip is linear-lanceolate, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 being extremely short, with three wavy elevated lines running through the middle lobe from end to end. The plant is 

 near Wallich's Dendrobium angulatum, with which it may be contrasted by the following character : — 



D. villosulum (Endendrobium) caule erecto nigro- 

 villoso, foliis linearibus acute et oblique bilobis, 

 pedunculis bifloris, sepalis petalisque acuminatis 

 recurvis obtusis lateralibus in men turn breve cor- 

 nutum connatis, labello lineari-lanceolato trilobo 

 3-lamellato lobis lateralibus nanis. 



Eremostachys laciniata. Bunge. 

 A fine showy hardy perennial from the 

 Caucasus, with large yellow flowers. Belongs 

 to Labiates. (Fig. 167.) 



Eadical leaves deeply pinnatifid with oblong- 

 lanceolate or linear lacerated segments. Flowering 

 stem 4-6 feet high, bearing whorls of large yellow 

 flowers, seated in shaggy white calyxes, and supported 

 by sessile blunt broad many-lobed green bracts. It 

 is a common inhabitant of the eastern side of Cauca- 

 sus, and of the adjoining countries, where it is found 

 on dry hills. Its great fleshy roots are evidently 

 adapted to such situations only. In a wild state it 

 is not half the size of the cultivated plant, nor are its 

 leaves half the breadth : but at the same time the 

 flowers seem to be larger and more conspicuous. 

 The plant appears intended by nature to I'esist even 

 a Persian summer. The accompanying figure was 

 made in the Garden of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, where it had been raised from seeds received 

 from the Imperial Botanic Garden at Petersburgh. 

 It proves to be a hardy perennial, with large spindle- 

 shaped roots, and a stem from four to six feet in 

 height. It is rather difficult to cultivate in the open 

 border on account of the large fleshy roots suffering 

 in winter from excess of moisture, but it succeeds 

 tolerably well if grown in pots during the winter, and 

 kept nearly dry in a cold pit or frame. It thrives in 

 a light rich sandy loam, and flowers in May or June. 

 It is only to be increased by seeds, and the plants are 

 two or three years before they bloom. Care must 

 be taken that, in potting or planting, one-third of the 

 fleshy roots are left above ground, otherwise they 

 soon perish. 



PlTCAIENIA MoNTALBENSIS. Lin- 

 den. A handsome scarlet-flowered hot-house 

 perennial, belonging to the Natural Order of 

 Bromeliads. Native of New Grenada. Intro- 

 duced by Mr. Linden. 



In the Allgemeine Gartenzeitung, May 3, 1851, this 

 fine plant is said to be of Mexican origin, having been 

 discovered by Mr. Linden's collectors Funk and 



