Plate 113 . 
COCHLIOSTEMA ODORATISSIMA. 
Weave indebted to Mr. William Bull for the opportunity of presenting a figure of this 
singularly beautiful and fragrant plant to our readers. It comes under the natural order 
Commelynacece, and is not (we are assured by Mr. Bull) an epiphyte. Let this, however, be as 
it may (and we believe the subject of our present Plate is really found growing upon other 
plants in South America), it succeeds well under cultivation when placed near the light with 
ordinary stove treatment. It produces broad tufted oblong lanceolate leaves of a deep green 
colour, tinged with bronzy-purple. The flowers, which are produced freely from the axils 
of the leaves, are luminous, blue in colour, deliciously fragrant, and grow in branched clusters, 
in the manner shown in the small sketch introduced on the Plate to illustrate the habit. The 
six stamens of the flowers of Cochliostema are very curious, three being fertile, and the other 
three barren ; the three fertile stamens have their anthers twisted in a spiral manner, and two 
of the three are hidden by petal-like processes. In addition to this, there is a curious body 
at the back of the flower, furnished with blue hairs. The brilliant blue of the flowers of this 
plant is a very rare tint in our stoves, and as lovely as it is rare. The free flowering 
habit of Cochliostema odoratissima and its delicious fragrance, make it a very desirable 
acquisition for those who have stove accommodation. It will be seen at a glance that our 
plant is more or less allied to the Alismacece and J mice a, in which latter natural order the 
Commehjnece were at one time included. 
Plate 114 . 
DENDROBIUM BOXALLII. 
Our figure of this lovely new Moulmeinese Dendrobium was sketched at Messrs. Veitch’s 
establishment on March the 5th last, from the plant exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s show, on March 4th. The new B. Boxallii is confessedly one of the most 
chastely beautiful of all Dendrobia, and it cannot fail to become a permanent favourite 
amongst all lovers of Orchids ; the flowers are produced in profusion in twos and threes from 
the old stems of the previous year, one stem, during the present season, having produced 
(at Bridge Hall, Bury), no less than twenty-one flowers. These flowers are large, the 
sepals, petals, and lip being tipped with delicate pale violet on a crystalline white ground, 
whilst the lip is also marked with a magnificent orange blotch of great brilliancy. Our 
plant will remind our readers more or less of B. crassinode, B. crystallinum , B. Bensonia 
(figured by us in Plate 355 of our old series), and D. Wardianum, but it is clearly a distinct 
species from all, though the flowers are almost exactly intermediate between the two former. 
The lovely and peculiar low tone of colour, both in flower and stem, will specially commend 
it to those who can appreciate delicate harmonies of tint in a low key. The leaves are long, 
linear-ligulate, bilobed at the apex, and blunt; they do not appear with the flowers, and the 
stems are close together, after the manner, without the exaggeration of B. crassinode. 
Professor Reichenbach has recently named this new Dendrobe [Gardener s Chronicle, March 
7th, 1874), after its discoverer, Mr. Boxall, the successful traveller to Messrs. Low and Co., 
of Clapton. 
