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with very unusually good results wherever, as we 
are assured in this report is the case on the Layou Flats, 
(f cattle might be reared with advantage on large 
pastures that could easily be formed." And as regards 
tobacco, though personally without any knowledge of the 
prospers held out by this kind of cultivation, we confess 
we feel somewhat allured by the statements in this 
report to the following effe<5t : — 
" As regards climate, elevation and richness of soil, the lower parts 
of the flats are eminently adapted to the cultivation of tobacco. Indeed, 
when the Lesser Antilles were first settled, tobacco was the principal 
cultivation on the freshly cleared lands. Some years ago, the late Dr. 
Imray made experiments in the cultivation, and he forwarded samples 
of Dominica-grown tobacco to Kew for a report as to its value. The 
report so obtained was most favourable ; a large tobacco merchant in 
London having informed Sir Joseph Hooker that a country able to pro- 
duce such tobacco had a mine of wealth in it. Already in Jamaica 
tobacco culture is a pronounced success, and the Jamaica cigars are 
justly esteemed as scarcely inferior to that of Cuba. The cultivation of 
tobacco is being taken up in St. Lucia, and there is no reason whatever 
why it should not succeed in Dominica. 
« 
New Plants from Guiana. — The well-known specialist 
in orchid-lore, H. G. REICHENBACH Jnr. has recently pub- 
lished, in the Gardener's Chronicle., the following descrip- 
tions of three new species of orchids, all collected by Mr. 
Burke, on behalf of Messrs. Veitch & Sons, in the 
neighbourhood of Roraima, during the summer of 1881. 
Stelis zonata, 11. sp. — This is near Stelis muscifera of Dr. Lindley 
but smaller in all parts, and interesting by its coloured zone. Its stem 
is short. The very thick leaf is cuneate. oblong, blunt. Peduncle 
with numerous sheaths and a one-sided raceme. Sepals light ochre, 
with a rich cinnamon base. Petals with an abrupt ochre margin and 
ochre base, a fine mauve mid-zone. Lip ochre, with glandular cells on 
ihe abrupt anterior border. Column mauve, with an ochre zone over 
