mountains upon the Tenasserim coast; and that he does not 
find it differ in any respect from the species as found in 
Nipal, where it is exceedingly common, as well as in 
Sylhet and Chittagong, growing parasitically upon trees 
in mountain forests. 
Our drawing was made last November, in the Garden 
of the Horticultural Society, to which establishment it had 
been presented by the Honourable Court of Directors of 
the East India Company, along with a great quantity of 
other most rare and valuable plants personally brought to 
England in the summer of 1828 by Dr. Wallich. 
It is a stove plant, requiring the same treatment as 
other similar epiphytes, but by no means difficult to cul- 
tivate. At the same time with this, the other species of 
Pholidota above alluded to (wndulata Wall.) was brought 
home; and is thus, it is to be hoped, secured to our 
Gardens: it is a much more delicate plant. 
Upon the subject of its cultivation, Dr. Wallich re- 
marked in the paper from which the foregoing extracts 
have been made, that, ‘* Like most members of this lovely 
tribe, it is easily made to grow on the trunks of old trees, 
taking care to place some vegetable mould under its roots, 
and tying it so as to retain its situation. It requires 
constant humectation, which is easily effected by means 
of a small vessel suspended over it, with a perforated 
bottom, through which the water is led down upon the 
plant by means ofa string, the upper end of which fills, 
though it does not quite shut up, the aperture of the vessel. 
It is propagated by separating its bulbous stems, which 
generally form dense tufts, ornamented with evergreen, 
dark-coloured, shining leaves, of a peculiarly firm and 
leathery texture.” 
J.L. 
