time, in last April, in the stove, where it grows more 
readily than most of its compatriots, which are usually 
extremely impatient of cultivation. It should be planted 
in rich vegetable mould. 
This genus differs from Bulbophyllum of Du Petit 
Thouars, in the absence of both gland and caudicula from 
the pollen masses, in the more manifest articulation of the 
labellum, which is never fringed, nor much unguiculate, 
with the columna, and in the curiously dilated state of the 
rachis. In the latter character, the Ist section of Dr. 
Blume’s genus Ephippium appears to offer a transition to 
Bulbophyllum, to which his second section of the same 
genus may be actually referable. Whether Diphyes of the 
same author is really distinct from Megaclinium, we should 
almost doubt, were it not that the natural habit of the 
plants referred to it appears to be very different. 
Jo L: 
