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CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. 
Those of our readers who were fortunate enough to see the splendid Orchid 
which is the subject of this notice, as it appeared at the first Chiswick exhibition of 
this season, will be glad to find we are thus noticing it. And those who did not see 
it, will be able from our description, and the accompanying vignette, to learn what a 
striking example of skilful cultivation, and truly noble object it was. 
To convey- an idea of its general appearance we cannot do better than employ the 
truthful remark of a noble personage who beheld it at the exhibition mentioned. It 
was remarked to be a " Palm with Orchidaceous flowers," and certainly such a com- 
parison was no fanciful one, for the large stem-like pseudo-bulbs, rising from five to 
six feet from the surface of the tub in which they grew, and furnished on their upper 
portion with long lanceolate foliage, each leaf stretching longitudinally from two 
opposite sides of the stem, the lower ones from eighteen inches to two feet in length, 
the others gradually diminishing in length to the summit of the stem, formed in 
their general outline what might be justly compared to the fan-like leaves of some of 
the large Palms. 
The plant consisted of eight or nine of the large stems above described, which 
had grown in an irregular circle six feet in diameter, within which remained the 
pseudo-bulbous stems without foliage, the growth of previous years, marking by their 
various degrees of strength, the increase in luxuriance the plant had successively 
