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CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. 
attained. These stems composed the centre of the plant, hut were almost hidde 
by the luxuriant large leaf-bearing ones. Without these latter, from their bas 
and immediately under shelter of their foliage, describing a still larger circle, rosf 
the inflorescence, three to four feet high ; its form was a branching panicle, su] 
ported on the upper part of a strong stem ; its figure an irregular triangle whos 
sides were about eighteen inches. The flowers, individually, are naturally small ( 
than it may be imagined such a plant would produce, and their colour, though n< 
of a bright nature, was gay ; the sepals and petals having a yellowisli-green grouru 
spotted with brownish-crimson. The lip formed a miniature representation of tlu 
of Onciclium papilio. The whole of the several portions of vegetation described, gre 
from a centre not more than a foot in diameter, occupying a tub about two foe 
across, and thirty inches to three feet deep. The plant growing naturally in the ordc 
stated, and having no more support, arrangement, or training, than was necessai 
to prevent injury to the inflorescence, which from the innumerable quantity of bio; 
soms, the luxurious manner the short ramifications of the panicle which bore ther 
clustered together, the light colours, aided by large bracts similarly marked, and th 
healthy foliage, constituted a most superb specimen. The young annual growth ha 
arisen nearly to the same height as the flower stems, and was strong and promising 
The fineness of the plant of which we write, was due in a greater measure t 
superior cultivation than may be imagined ; for instance, fancy the fine foliage whic' 
principally gave it so noble an aspect not to have been present, to have been dea( 
or partially so, the plant would have been immeasurably less fine in appearance 
Now, under ordinary cultivation, the leaves of Cyrtopodiums and the present specie 
also, begin to decay as soon as the pseudo-bulbs are perfected. Hence, except whei 
flowering, they are usually uninteresting, if not unsightly objects. 
The plant in question is the property of Sir George Staunton, Leigh Park 
Havant. Mr. Scott, that gentleman’s gardener, under whose skilful managemen 
it was brought to the state of perfection it exhibited, informs us that it was especiall; 
treated with a view to prevent its losing its foliage, and which was effected by no 
suffering it to get too dry, or completely rest a long period in winter. It was, Mi 
S. acquainted us, purchased five years ago at the Messrs. Loddiges’ establishment, ; 
small plant, and that it has been kept in a moist stove, the temperature of which 
in summer, ranged from 80 to 90 degrees, and in winter from 60 to 65 degrees 
that the soil it has been grown in is sandy, turfy peat, used in a rough state, mixe( 
with sphagnum moss. 
The genus Cyrtopoclium, according to the Messrs. Loddiges’ Catalogue, is rathe 
extensive ; though few species are yet described. They are chiefly natives of Africa 
and South America. Our present subject is of rather modern introduction, and is i 
native of Brazil. Those already known are not strikingly distinct from each other. 
The great interest with which our plant was regarded, and the admiration i 
drew forth at the meeting it was exhibited at, is a proof of the tendency such subjects 
have to give a zest to the increasing taste for Horticultural pursuits, and drawing 
