Dendrobium crassinode Barberianum.—We have received a noble example of this very fine Orchid from W. Turner, Esq., Over Hall, Winsford, Cheshire. The stem bore twenty-four flowers of large size, and the specimen from which it was cut was the best-grown plant we have seen. It had sixteen bulbs, averaging from eighteen inches to two feet in length, all in full bloom at one time, and presented a most glorious spectacle. The sepals and petals are of a beautiful clear white, tipped with rich purple, and the lip is white with a deep orange blotch at the base. We are pleased to be able to mention Mr. W. Turner’s name in association with so grand a plant, for he has been well known for many years as one of the oldest of our Orchid growers.—B. S. W. [Illustration: PL. 139. ARUNDINA BAMBUSÆFOLIA.] ARUNDINA BAMBUSÆFOLIA. [Plate 139.] Native of India: Nepal, Sylhet, Burmah, etc. Terrestrial. _Stems_ erect, terete, striate, with the habit of a small bamboo, three to five feet high, as thick as a stout quill or one’s little finger, polyphyllous. _Leaves_ a span to a foot in length, distant, distichous, ensiform, with the base sheathing the stem, and the apex attenuated, erect and spreading, the upper ones on the flowering stems reduced to sheathing bracts, which are numerous, short, ovate acute, spreading at the tips, so that the _peduncles_ are ochreate, of a whitish green, and terminate in a spike, sometimes branched, of several showy blossoms. _Flowers_ large and effective, measuring about two and a half inches across; _sepals_ narrow lanceolate, entire, the dorsal one erect, the two lateral ones sub-parallel, directed downwards, of a pale pink colour; _petals_ ovate, plane, spreading laterally, of a deeper pink than the sepals, with a rose-pink stripe down the centre; _lip_ three-lobed, the lateral segments rolled over the column, pink, abruptly abbreviated in front, where they are recurved and deeper in colour; middle segment larger, bipartite, the divisions bluntly obovate-oblong, divaricate and crisped, of a magenta-rose, the throat white in the lower part, marked with white lines on each side, the disk bearing two fleshy undulated lamellæ or crests, and a third shorter straight one between them. _Column_ clavate, semi-terete, lying parallel with the lip. Arundina bambusæfolia, _Lindley_, in _Wallich’s Catalogue_, No. 3751; _Id._ _Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants_, 125; _Griffith_, _Notulæ ad Plantas Asiaticas_, iii., 329, t. 314; _Wight_, _Icones Plantarum Indiæ Orientalis_, v., t. 1661; _Reichenbach fil._, in _Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematicæ_, vi., 457. Cymbidium bambusifolium, _Roxburgh_, _Hortus Bengalensis_, 63. Bletia graminifolia, _Don_, _Prodromus Floræ Nepalensis_, 29.