. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . llent figure of Dipodium pictum,Echb., 61.;and in the description of it Mr. Hemsley saysthat the records are not very precise, but, fromthe incomplete notes of collectors, it appears thatDipodium piotum and D. paludosum start in theground and grow up trees. This is certainly trueof D. pictum, a very common plant in the Malaypeninsula. It inhabits woods, which may be calledoptn woods tor this part of the world, where thewoods are usually very dense, and is usually tobe found in the wetter parts of th
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . llent figure of Dipodium pictum,Echb., 61.;and in the description of it Mr. Hemsley saysthat the records are not very precise, but, fromthe incomplete notes of collectors, it appears thatDipodium piotum and D. paludosum start in theground and grow up trees. This is certainly trueof D. pictum, a very common plant in the Malaypeninsula. It inhabits woods, which may be calledoptn woods tor this part of the world, where thewoods are usually very dense, and is usually tobe found in the wetter parts of theiu. It is vain. I think its locality there must have beenturned into a Rice-field, and so it has beendestroyed. It appears to be very rare in thepeninsula now, though abundant in Labuan andelsewhere further east. H. N. Ridley, BotanicGardens, Singapore. Public SHOULD esteem it a favour if you wouldinform me whether there are any public parks orgardens in England and the Colonies, other thanthose in this Colony, which are also more or lessnurseries ? As you are aware we have in this. Fig. 7.— la feaxce : ,U30vt half size, (.see p. 24.) grandiflora. The porch is over the steps thatlead on to the front verandah, and althoughnot a gaudy Orchid, the Cjmbidium was orna-mental and deeply interesting. After some time,however, we wished the plant farther away ; webegan to experience a disagreeable smell, and ina short time it became dreadful. Our noses soonled us to the basket, and between the uprights Icould see the body of a large black snake. Howthe brute came to die there I do not know; and asit was near the bottom it could not be got outwithout destroying the whole thing. Of allsmells there is nothing to compare with that ofa decomposing black snake ; but, like many otherdisagreeable experiences, it came to an end, thanksto the ants and the hot weather. D. Buchanan,Mackay, Queensland. found sometimes straggling on the ground, andeventually climbing up,usually,quite
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