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LAELIA PURPURATA uinpL. var. FASTUOSA.
THE PURPLE-STAINED LAELIA, SUPERB VARIETY.

LAELIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 41.

Laelia purpurata. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 41.

Var. fastuosa. Varietas floribus roseis, petalis roseo-purpureo flammeis.

Var. fastuosa Hort., Moran in Journ. des Orch., IV, pp. 102, 103, fig. 57. — GoweErR in The Garden,
June roth, 1893, p. 477.

aelia purpurata is certainly one of the showiest and most popular of
garden Orchids, and at the same time it is also very variable. The

typical form has pure white sepals and petals with a purple lip, as
was shown at t. 282 of this work. Two of its handsome varieties have also
been figured, namely var. alba, at t. 283, and var. rosea, at t. 302. Many
other brilliant forms have received distinctive varietal names, and among
them the one to which the present plate is devoted.

Laelia purpurata var. fastuosa flowered in the collection of L’Horticutrure
INTERNATIONALE in May last, when the accompanying plate was prepared. It is a
very handsome form. The sepals and petals are broad and well formed, and of a
bright rose tint, the latter being much darker in their upper’ half and along the
centre and nerves. The well formed lip is deep crimson-maroon tipped with
lilac, and the throat white. It is very distinct and handsome. The markings
on the petals closely resemble those of the variety discolor (RotFe in Orchid
Review, I, p. 199), in which, however, the sepals are blush white, and the
flower generally lighter in colour.

The principal variations to which this species is subject, and the varieties
then in existence, were indicated in this work about two years ago, since which
time some additions to the list have been made, as an enumeration of no
less than twenty-eight varieties is given by Comte pe Moran in the Yournal
des Orchidées for June 15th last, where indeed a flower of the present variety
is figured.

It is certain that this handsome species and its varieties will continue to
hold a position in the very front rank of cultivated Orchids for a long time

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SOME USEFUL HINTS.

It is a plant which must be syringed with

Aganisia coerulea is now in flower.
which must be included among the most

caution, so as not to wet the flowers,
charming of Orchids. Their blue colour, analogous with that of Vanda PUES
is exquisite, their form is nearly circular, and their arrangement in upright
flexible racemes extremely graceful.

Aganisia coerulea is not difficult to cultivate, but it requires much heat and
moisture.

It succeeds best on a block, because of its creeping rhizome, and should be
fixed to the wood, so that its pseudobulbs may grow out and elevate themselves
each year.

The plants should be cultivated in the warm or intermediate house, and
by preference in a small low house, where the atmosphere is always charged
with humidity. They should be syringed frequently, and in a warm season like
the present one, at least once a day.

The flowers of Aganisia coerulea remain in good condition for a long time,
if water be not allowed to touch them, and the flowering is renewed at different
seasons of the year. It is one of the most beautiful species when cultivated near
the glass.

It is not advisable in general to tear away the pellicle which covers the
pseudobulbs of Cattleyas when they have become fully developed. Sometimes,
however, these bracts become black and appear to decay, either because water
has penetrated between them and the pseudobulbs, or the plants have not been
sufficiently ventilated and exposed to the sun. In such cases it is advisable to
split the bract throughout its entire length, so that the air may penetrate to the
interior and arrest the decay; otherwise it may attack the pseudobulbs.

as best time to divide the plants is just before they begin to grow. At

this period there is no danger of injuring the roots, as they are not now firmly

fixed in the compost. ;

The ens wns have been divided should be placed in a shady part of

the house, which will favour the development of new roots, and prevent the plants
from becoming shrivelled.

Water should be more sparingly given for some time, until they have
commenced to grow and the young roots are formed.

t is also advisable to add that in dividing the plants, one or more eyes

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LAELIO-CATTLEYA x EXIMIA nort.
THE DISTINGUISHED LAELIO-CATTLEYA.

LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p. 25.
Laelio-cattleya X eximia, Hybrida inter Cattleya Warneri et Laelia purpurata artificiose producta.
Laelio-cattleya X eximia Hort., Gard. Chron., 1890, i, p. 800. — ROLFE in Fourn. des Orch., I, p. 165.

his very beautiful hybrid was raised by Mr Sepen, in the establishment
of Messrs James Verrcu and Sons, of Chelsea, between Cattleya Warnert
and Laelia purpurata, the former being the seed parent. It flowered for

the first time in 1890, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural
Society on June 24th. of that year, when it was awarded a First-class Certificate.
It is specially interesting as the first hybrid obtained from Cattleya Warneri. The
plant afterwards passed into the collection of Baron Scuroper, of The Dell,
Egham, and the annexed plate was prepared from materials kindly forwarded by
him in June of the present year.

The flowers of this charming plant are large, well-formed, and of good
substance. The sepals and the broad petals are of a beautiful rosy lilac, and
the lip very large, and bearing a considerable resemblance to that of C. Warneri
in shape, and somewhat intermediate between those of the two parents in colour.
It is of a bright rose-purple, the front being of a deeper shade, like that of some
of the varieties of Laelia purpurata, and the throat orange-yellow.

It is one of a series of very brilliant forms which have all been derived
on the one hand from Laelia purpurata, either as the seed or pollen parent. With
Cattleya labiata it yielded Laelio-cattleya x bella; with Cattleya Mossiae it yielded
Laelio-cattleya X Canhamiana ; and with Cattleya Warscewiczir it yielded Laelio-
cattleya X callistoglossa. Thus we have four of the most beautiful hybrids in
existence raised between Laelia purpurata and the Cattleyas of the labiata group,
which facts should be very suggestive to those who are engaged in the fascinating
work of raising new varieties from seed by artificial crossing.

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plants, to exhibitions for example, the precautions which are mecessary 1n
these cases.

It is the inflorescence especially which, as the most delicate part, must be
protected. Sticks should be inserted in the compost, and round them should be
wrapped some soft tissue paper ito prevent contact with their rough surface, and
to these the flowering stems should be tied with ligatures of raphia.

For those with arching racemes which are too robust to be straightened, as
those of Cymbidium, for example, it ig sufficient to support two or three points
to the same number of sticks, placed at intervals from each other.

The flowers should be further wrapped in pieces of soft tissue paper fastened
by their two ends to the sticks. They should also be wrapped in wadding when
they are very delicate.

When there are many plants, each should be wrapped in paper, and arranged
in a large basket, the intervals being filled with shavings or other matter intended
to keep them in their places. Round the edges of the basket four or five flexible
laths or stakes should be placed, which can be brought together and tied at
their summit. In this way a sort of protecting cage is formed round the plants.

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MASDEVALLIA x POURBAIXII norr.
M. EUG. POURBAIX’S MASDEVALLIA.

MASDEVALLIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p. 17.
Masdevallia Pourbaixii. Hybrida inter Masdevallia VeitchianaQ et M. Shuttleworthii @ producta.

ybrid Masdevallias are not yet very numerous, although they are not
more difficult to obtain than in other genera. They have also the
advantage of being easy of culture and of rapid growth, and the wonder

is that they have not been raised in larger numbers. One reason probably is that
the genus Masdevallia is not one which finds great favour among amateurs of
Orchids. Artificial hybrids have probably helped to restore to it a certain amount
of popularity, if not to the high rank which it occupied a few years ago, by giving
rise to new forms and more varied colours. The only defect of the genus may
perhaps by this means be removed, as for a long time the explorations of
collectors have not resulted in many new acquisitions in the genus.

Masdevallia % Pourbaixti was obtained by M. Evcine Poursarx, of Mons,
by crossing M. Veitchiana with the pollen of M. Shuttleworthii. The cross was
effected during the summer of 1888, and the seeds matured in about eight
months, and were sown in March of the following year. It flowered for the first
time just four years later, in March, 1893.

The new hybrid is quite intermediate between its two parents. In habit
it most resembles the pollen parent, but the flower, on the contrary, presents a
perfect combination of the characters of the two species interested. In size, it is
about intermediate; in shape, it most resembles M. Shuttleworthii, but it is a
little less open and more elongated; in colour, it approaches the superb vermillon-
scarlet of M. Veitchiana, which will always make this beautiful species sought
for in artificial crossing; still, as might easily be forseen, we find also the
presence of a more sombre tint, a dull orange-yellow, covered with a multitude
of little brownish red dots. We observe also some lines of a darker tint.

This hybrid is dedicated to M. Eva. Poursaix, its raiser, and this dedication
is justified by the fact that M. Poursarx has the merit of producing the first
hybrid which has appeared in Belgium, and probably on the continent, so far as
we are able to ascertain.

Masdevallia x Pourbaixii, only produced a single bloom on the occasion
of its first flowering, which is not suprising, as the plant is still very small. We

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may hope that it will ultimately prove as floriferous as the pollen parent, for it is
a well-known fact that hybrids in general flower more easily and in greater
abundance than the species from which they are derived. On this account, and
by reason of the beauty of its color, it is probable that the present hybrid will

prove very serviceable.
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ODONTOGLOSSUM THOMPSONIANUM aarnigr.
Mr W. THOMPSON’S ODONTOGLOSSUM.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 19.
Odontoglossum Thompsonianum, GARNIER in Fournal des Orchidées, IV, p. 108.

j he superb form which we now figure flowered at the end of May in the
houses of the Horricuttrure INTERNATIONALE, Brussels. Immediately
afterwards it passed into the collection of W. Tompson, Esq., Walton,
Stone, Staffordshire. It is well known that Mr Tuompson is a special lover of
Odontoglossums, and that the collection of plants of this genus which he
exhibited at the recent grand show at Manchester in June last obtained the first
prize, namely a Silver Cup.

As M. Max Garnier pointed out when recently describing the plant in the
Fournal des Orchidées, it belongs to the hystrix group. What we generally call
Odontoglossum hystrix (BATEMAN) in cultivation, however, is only a form of

O. luteo-purpureum. But this species is one of the most variable in the entire
genus, and one of the most polymorphous among Orchids. In order to be
convinced of this it is only necessary to pass in reyiew the numerous synonyms
or innumerable varieties named in gardens or figured in the different journals
which are devoted to Orchids. The form and colour of the segments varies
infinitely, and for those cultivated in gardens it is necessary to adopt different
names to represent the principal types, and under the name hystrix (which
signifies a porcupine, and is given in allusion to the spiny crest) those forms of
O. luteo-purpureum which have the segments, and especially the petals toothed
and fimbriate along the margins.

Odontoglossum Thompsonianum has decidedly this character, and is of very
graceful appearance, besides which the segments are broad and spreading, and
altogether we may consider it as one of the most beautiful forms of this group.
The sepals are bright brown with a light yellow border at the base and summit.
The petals, which are very broad in the middle and almost of rhomboid shape,
are of a light yellow ground colour, with three or four brown blotches in their
lower half, across the base, and a much larger blotch near the summit. The
clear yellow lip bears a large brown blotch at the centre, and near the basal
margin some much smaller spots of the same tint.

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whether these forms should be considered as representing varieties or natural

hybrids between the typical species and some allied one. O. Thompsonianum

appears to be the result of a cross between O. luteo-purpureum and O. Coradinet
or some allied form. We do not attempt the task of deciding a question of this
kind, and we think the better plan, is to give to this unique plant a special name,
without callig it either a hybrid or a variety.

Odontoglossum luteo-purpureum, to which it is most allied was, as iS well-
known, discovered by M. LINDEN, in 1842, in the forests of Quindiu, on the
central Cordillera of New Granada, and was described by LINDLEY in the
Orchidaceae Lindenianae from dried specimens collected by the former. Afterwards
it was also discovered by Weir in the Odontoglossum crispunt district. It is therefore
evident that it may have produced numerous intermediate forms by crossing with
this species, also with O. Lindleyanum, O. odoratum and O. Coradinet.

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Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
> parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina, | renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum X Claesianum, Onci-
Cochlioda Notzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium Des- | dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
boisianum, Cypripedium < Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium | Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

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Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani. Burlingtonia pu- | Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya < > Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthesleucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum, | crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
Cypripedium vexillarium, Dendrobium X Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco- | nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora, ‘

3'¢ Volume

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den- | teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo- Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste | Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum X excellens var. dellense, Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

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Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum | Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya | Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
‘Alexandrae var. tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var. | vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Statteriana, Cattleya < Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro- | Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
corys, Cypripedium >< Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac- graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

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Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya | amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya >< Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya | var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne | Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium >< me- | crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya | planilabris.

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CYMBIDIUM GRANDIFLORUM carr. var. PUNCTATUM cosy.

THE LARGE-FLOWERED CYMBIDIUM, DOTTED VARIETY.

Cymbidium Swartz. Sepala subaequalia, libera, patentia, lateralia interdum basi sub labello brevissime connata.
Petala sepalis similia vel paullo minora. Labellum ad basin columnae sessile, erectum, basi concavum, trilobum ;
lobi laterales latiusculi, erecti, columnam laxe amplectentes, medius patens vel recurvus, indivisus, disco varie bila-
mellato. Columna longiuscula, semiteres, curvula, exalata vel anguste bialata, apoda; clinandrium parum prominulum,
truncatum vel obliquum, Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, valde convexa vel late semiglobosa, unilocularis
vel imperfecte bilocularis; pollinia 2, late subglobosa, cerea, profunde sulcata vel e duobus sibimet arcte applicatis

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uno minore conflata, in anthera collateraliter contigua, app parva transversa vel divaricato-bil connexa,
anthera dehiscente mediante appendicula glandulae squamiformi transversae affixa. Capsula oblonga, saepe majuscula,
interdum breviter rostrata.

Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus foliatis abbreviatis cum foliorum basibus plus minusve in pseudobulbum incrassatis.
Folia saepe longissima, coriacea, venis elevatis percursa, vel breviora magis carnosa laevioraque; vaginae basi dila-
tatae in caule imbricatae, vetustiores saepe ad fibras diu persistentes reductae. Pedunculi vel scapi inter folia vel ad
basin caulis oriundi, longi, simplices vel rarissime ramosi, basi vaginis laxis interdum fere in folia brevia productis
stipati. Flores majusculi, laxe racemosi, breviter pedicellati, racemis haud raro elongatis pendulisque. Bracteae breves.

Cymbidium Swartz Nov. Act. Soc. Sc. Upsal., VI, p. 70 (1799) et in K. Vetenst. Acad. Nya. Handl. Stockh.,
XXI, p. 236 (1800), pro parte. — LinpL. Gen. and Spec. Orch., 161 (part.). — Reus. F. in WALP. Ann. Bot., VI, 622.
— BENTH. et Hook. Gen. Plant., UI, p. 536. — Hook. F. Fl. Brit. Ind., VI, p. 8. — Verrcu, Man. Orch. Pl.,
part, IX, p. 10.

Tridorchis BLUME Orchid. Arch. Ind., go (1858).

Cymbidium grandiflorum, Foliis elongatis, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, vaginis valde striatis; pedunculo robustis-

‘simo, decurvo, racemoso, 7-12-floro ; bracteis minutis; floribus amplis; sepalis petalisque stellato-patulis, oblongo-

lanceolatis, acutis, viridibus, petalis paullo angustioribus; labello flavescente intus purpureo-maculato, utrinque velutino,

margine breviter ciliato, lobis lateralibus basi sut datis seu aequalibus antice angulatis, lobo antico late ovato

subcordato margine crispo sublobulato, disco a basi usque paullo ultra medium lamellis geminis velutinis instructo.

Cymbidium grandiflorum Grirr, Notul. Il, p. 342 (1851) et Ic. Plant. Asiat., t. 321. — Hook. r. Fl. Brit.
Ind., V1, p. 12. — Gard. Chron., ser. 3, XI (1892), p. 267. — VerrcH Man. Orchid. Pl., part. IX, p. 18. —
Fourn. of Hortic., 1893, p. 153, fig. 27.

C. Hookerianum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 7. — BATEM. in Bot. Mag., t. 3574 et Sec. Century
Orch. Pl., t. 187. —, Du Buyss. L’Orchidoph., p. 267. — WiLi1aMs Orch. Grow. Man., edit. 6, p. 233. — Watson,
Orchids, p. 149.

C. giganteum (part.) LINDL. in Journ. Lin. Soc., III, p. 29 (non WALLICH).

C. giganteum var. Hookerianum Bors. Orchid. p. 119 (1893).

Cymbidium spec. GrirF. Itin. Not., p. 145, n° 698.

Crescit in Himalaya orientali ad Nepalia, Sikkim et Bhotan, altit. 1700-2500 m.

Var. punctatum, Sepala petalaque flavo-viridia, intus inferne purpureo-punctata. Labellum flavo-aurantiacum,
punctis purpureis numerosis notatum.

Var. punctatum Coan. in Fourn. des Orchid., 4me année, p. 76 (1893). — The Orchid Review, I, p- 200.

he genus Cymbidium, as it was founded by Swarrz, and admitted
by WILLDENow, and more recently by LinpLey, included a mixture of
somewhat heterogeneous species, of which the greater part have since

been transferred to other genera. The generic des¢ription given in the second

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volume of this work, pl. 222, refers to that loosely defined genus of the
old authors, and therefore we think it well now to supply in its place the
description given by BrntHam, which is far more accurate. Moreover, we
must take the species figured under pl. 222 out of the Cymbidiums, and rank
it in the allied genus Cyperorchis, which is distinguished by the far more
dense scapes, by the segments of the perianth being considerably narrower,
erect and converging together at least to the middle; by the lip being nearly
right, erect with a much smaller terminal lobe; by the rostellum being far
more prominent and beak-shaped ; and by the pollinia being narrower, pyriform,
with a nearly quadrangular gland.

As restricted by the more recent botanists, the genus includes still at
least thirty species, the majority growing on the hilly parts of south-eastern
Asia; a few species are disseminated in Australia, tropical Africa; in some
isles of the Pacific Ocean, and one species is found in Japan.

The native country of Cymbidium grandiflorum is the eastern Himalaya,
where it is found between 5000 and 7500 feet elevation.

It is characterized by its long acute leaves, reaching to a length of 24 inches,
and 1 to 1 1/2 broad, strongly striped with alternately pale and bright green lines
along their sheathing base. The stout, more or less drooping scape, termi-
nates in a raceme of 7 to 12 very large flowers, measuring no less than 5 and
even sometimes 6 inches across in some forms. The spreading lanceolate
oblong and acute petals and sepals, are uniformly pale green in the type,
while in the variety punctatum they bear at their base a number of dark purple
spots. The lip, somewhat villose on both sides, is tinged with very pale yellow
in the species, and bears some purple blotches, rather large at the apex, smaller
and more aumerous towards the base; while in the variety its colour is a
somewhat brighter yellow, spotted with purple dots in a nearly regular way; it
is somewhat contracted at its base, forming a claw with the edges connate
to the column up to 2 3/4 to 3 1/4 inches; the front lobe is nearly rounded,
wavy and nearly lobulate at the margin; the disc bears two longitudinal very
hairy plates, extending from the base nearly to the base of the front lobe.

The species flowered for the first time in English gardens at the beginning
of 1866, and was immediately described by ReicHENBACH as a new species under
the name of C. Hookerianum; but Sir JosepH Hooker, to whom the species was
dedicated, observed himself, in his Flora of British India (1890), that it is identical
with C. grandiflorum, described and figured by Grirrirx fifteen years before. We
must therefore keep the latter name.

The variety which we now figure appeared this year in the houses of
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Odontoglossum Triomphe de Rambouillet. An hybridum naturale inter O. crispum et speciem aliquam ejusdem

loci incolam? Floribus equidem speciosissimis, sepalis petalisque roseis carmineo purpureo maculatis, basi et apice
candidulis, labello candido praeter discum aureum.

he superb form which we figure here must be considered as one of the
gems of the group of natural hybrids allied to Odontoglosswm crispum.
4 By its segments it somewhat resembles O. x Ruckerianum, and it has
also a similar rosy colour, which is particularly bright on the borders of the
petals and sepals, though the colour is more pronounced than usual in that form.
On the other hand the large purple blotches which stand out from the ground
colour give it a distinct aspect.

It is a form of the first rank, and we are pleased to state that it is not the
first success of the distinguished amateur with whom it has appeared; M. Dattz-
MAGNE, Civil Engineer, of Rambouillet, France. Many beautiful Orchids, of
which one particularly has been recently figured in this work, under the name of
Miltonia vexillaria var. virginalis, are already known in the world of Orchidophilists
from his beautiful and rich collection, which promises very soon to be one of

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CULEURE OF CYMBIDIUM.

Cymbidiums are among the Orchids which are called epiphytes, though in
their mode of growth they are certainly more nearly allied to the terrestrial
genera. There occur certainly, as explorers of the Himalayan jungles have disco-
vered, among the branches of dead trees, or in the gaping cavities of old trunks,
some species of Cymbidium having their leaves thick and hard, like leather.
C. aloifolium, C. pendulum, and even C. sinense, which thrive well under these
conditions. C. eburneum, also, is occasionally found growing as an epiphyte on
the branches of large trees. But the species never offer under these conditions
the vigorous aspect and prosperity which they present in places where their roots
can procure a more abundant and more substantial nourishment.

C. grandiflorum, longifolium, giganteum and Devonianum appear on the
mountain sides at about 6,000 feet elevation, in situations analagous with the
preceding, and on more than one occasion collectors have gathered them in the
cavities of the trees, as in these kinds of pouches the seeds rest and germinate
easily when thus sheltered from gusts of wind. But these trees, bathed with
humidity, are usually covered with a thick coat of moss, which generally hides
a depth of debris from dead leaves and decaying mosses. It is in this favourable
compost that the roots of Cymbidium seek their nutriment, and very rarely are
they found attached to the flanks of the trees.

We conceive that differences in the habitat lead to considerable differences
in the mode of vegetation of the plants. The species which grow near the ground
are subjected to a temperature truly tropical, abundantly exposed to the rays
of the sun, and living nearly always in a very dry atmosphere; the rains being
feeble and not frequent.

In the upper regions, on the contrary, the forests are much thicker, and the
Cymbidiums much more in the shade. At the same time the evaporation of water
is less rapid. The rainy season continues almost uninterruptedly from June to
October, and this season over the mountains are nearly always enveloped in thick
mist, which maintains around the plants an atmosphere saturated with humidity.

The culture of Cymbidiums is not particularly difficult. Most of the failures
experienced by certain amateurs arises from keeping them in too high a
temperature. They should be potted in a compost, composed of substantial
materials.

Most Cymbidiums succeed perfectly in the Cattleya house, or in a well-
ventilated warm house. They rapidly make strong specimens, which have a
very decorative appearance, especially when the flower stems appear, and bend
gracefully inflected above the leaves. These beautiful plants should be repotted,
according to the rapidity of their growth, about every other year.

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Columna brevis vel parum elongata, apoda, apice breviter bialata; clinandrium valde obliquum, postice acuminatum.
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disciformi vix in stipitem brevissimum productae affixa. Capsula erostris.

Herbae terrestres vel epiphytae, caulibus foliatis basi in pseudobulbum tuberiformem vel elongatam incrassatis.
Folia disticha, basi vaginantia, angusta, plicato-venosa. Racemi terminales, pedunculati, simplices. Flores speciosi
vel mediocres, breviter pedicellati. Bracteae parvae vel angustae.

Galeandra LINDL. in BAUER Ill. Orchid. Pl. Gen., tab. 8 (1830) et Gen. and Sp. Orchid., p. 186 (1832),
part. — ENDLICH Gen., p. 201. — RcuB. F. in WALP. Ann. Bot., VI, p. 648. — BenTH. et Hook. Gen. Plant.,
Ul, p. 536. — VeircH Man. Orch. Pl., part. IX, Pp: 5-

Corydandra Reus. Nomencl., p. 53 (1841).

Galeandra Claesii. Pseudobulbis gracilibus, elongato-cylindraceis subfusiformibus, leviter sulcatis, anthesi 5-7 folia-
tis; foliis parvis, erecto-patulis, oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, uninerviis, basi longiuscule vaginantibus ; racemo longius-
culo, nutante, superne laxe 6-floro; pedunculo inferne longiuscule plurivaginato ; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis,
ovario multo brevioribus ; floribus mediocribus, patulis ; Sepalis lanceolatis, breviter acuminatis; petalis paullo latioribus,
acutis; labello subtrapeziformi, margine leviter undulato, lobis late triangularibus, lateralibus obtusis, intermedio
subretuso et minute apiculato, disco a basi ad medium tricristato, cristis lateralibus glabris, intermedia longiore superne
longe villosa; calcari lineari-conico, leviter sigmoideo-flexuoso, apice acutiusculo, ovario sublongiore; columna antice
densiuscule longeque villosa; anthera glabra, in cristam transversam obtusam subtruncatam longe producta.

Galeandra Claesii Coan. supra.

Crescit in Brasilia.

INDLEY, in his Genera and Species (1832), enumerated but three species
of Galeandra, and yet two of the three belonged really to the genus
Eulophia. In fact the two genera are closely allied, and many species
included in the former must be placed in the latter, amongst which all the
African species that have been described as Galeandras.

The following are the chief differences between the two genera. In the
Galeandras the scape terminating the stem is always foliate, the lip is produced
in a large and infundibuliform spur, the anther is provided above with a broad
transverse crest, and the pollinia are nearly destitute of pedicel; while in the
Eulophias the flowers are usually produced on a leafless scape, the lip bears only
at its base a prominence or a small spur included between the lateral sepals, the
anther is semi-globular, and the pollinia are fastened to a more or less elongated
pedicel.

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Twenty species of Galeandra at least are known at present, all natives of
tropical America, and extending from Brazil to Mexico.

Galeandra Claesii has very slender pseudobulbs, scarcely exceeding the size
of a penholder, 10-18 inches long, cylindrical, hardly fusiform, slightly furrowed,
with little distant, not inflated knots, pale bluish-green at first, then deep green,
clothed with the grey remains of the dried old leaves. The leaves, 5-7 in
number, are rather spreading, one-nerved, of a somewhat glaucous bluish-green,
2, 1/2 to 3 inches long, and 1/3 inch broad, the upper ones decreasing suddenly
in sheaths clothing the inferior part of the peduncle; they extend at their base
in greyish membranous sheaths, rather densely dotted with purple, with a stout,
plackish-purple longitudinal line on either side. Inflorescence g inches long,
decidedly bent down, the upper part drooping, bearing towards it apex six
flowers horizontally spreading, each of them provided with a bract 1 3/4 to 2 1/2
inches long. The sepals and petals are minutely 5-nerved, green strongly washed
with vinous purple; the sepals are about 11/6 inches, and the petals 1 inch
long. The lip is obtuse, scarcely retuse at the apex, vinous purple towards
its extremity, then paler, passing to yellowish green at the spur, with bands
washed with somewhat vinous purple; the basal part of the disc bears three
parallel crests, the middle one, hairy above, entends in a line of long whitish
hairs; the spur is slender, acute and somewhat flexuous, 1 inch long. The
column is about 1/3 inch long, very pale yellow, with some short purple
streaks on the front side, which is covered with long whitish flexuose hairs,
rather loose at the middle, more dense under the stigma, and chiefly at the
base. Anther yellowish-orange, paler above, dark purple at the apex.

This new species bears, in many of its characteristics, a considerable resem-
blance to G. villosa Bars. Ropr. (Gen. et Sp. Orchid. nov., I, p. 85-1877);
a native of Rio Negro, in the province of Amazonas. In this latter species,
the pseudobulbs are of the same colouring, but considerably more swollen at
their middle, and therefore more fusiform ; the leaves are less numerous, more
erect, and several times longer; the inflorescence is less drooping, the flowers
larger and of a rather different colour; the lip more distinctly emarginate at
the apex, with a thick tuft of hairs, instead ofa single hairy line at the middle
of the disc; the anther retuse at and the apex, instead of hardly truncate.

G. Claesii was sent from Brazil to L’Horricu_rure INTERNATIONALE, of
Brussels, by their skilful collector M. Fi. Crags, to whom it is properly
dedicated. This charming novelty flowered in the houses of the same esta-
blishment at the beginning of July last.

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CYMBIDIUM. Vide supra, p. 13.

Cymbidium Lowianum. Racemo C. gigantei, labello tamen trifido, laciniis lateralibus angulatis , lacinia antica
cordato-triangula expansa, non undulata; callis in ipso disco ante basin laciniae anticae crassis triangulatis; caudiculae
cruribus divaricatis aristaeformibus. Flores viriduli brunneo striati. Labellum albido flavidulum, disco laciniae anticae
purpureo, margine angustissime flavidulum. Calli antice purpureo lavati. Maculae quaedam purpureae in labelli basi.
Columna ima basi purpureo maculata.

Var. superbissimum. Floribus magnis, labelli lobo anteriore splendide purpureo-aurantiaco maculato.

Cymbidium Lowianum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1879, i, p. 332. — Floral Mag., n. s., t. 353:

Cymbidium giganteum var. Lowianum Reus. ¥F. in Gard. Chron., 1877, i, p. 685.

ymbidium Lowianum was introduced in 1877, by Messrs Low & C?, of
Clapton, and described by Retcuensacn the same year, from rather
Le incomplete dried materials, under the name of Cymbidium giganteum var.
Lowianum. It flowered for the first time in 1879, when the celebrated Orchido-
grapher gave to it its proper specific name. He then described it in the following
terms : —

“ This is a beautiful novelty, according to my taste. It ranks near Cymbi-
dium gigantewm Watu., and C. longifolium Don, the two short abrupt calli in
the disc of the lip, the cordate not wavy anterior lacinia of the lip, and the
straight short divaricate tails of the caudicula, give it the strongest claim to be
considered an excellent, well-marked species.

..-.. There are no ciliae of the lip, no hairy running lines from the disc to the
anterior part, no wavy middle lacinia. The large flowers have sepals and petals
green, with a few faint sepia-brown lines over the strongest nerves. These organs
get more pallid by and bye, changing to a yellowish green. The lip is whitish
yellow, disc of anterior lacinia in the beginning purple, later maroon brownish
purple, with a very narrow pallid border, and there are some purple spots at the
base of the lip. Calli washed on their anterior parts with purple. The anterior
part of the base of the column has a few spots.... I am informed it takes a
very long time to expand its flowers : this is also the case in C. Hookerianum,
as is well known. ”

The plant was exhibited on the 11th March, at a meeting of the Royal
Horticultural Society of London, and obtained a First-class Certificate. Since
then it has been distributed in large numbers, and is now the most popular
species in the genus. It is a plant of vigorous growth, and forms strong spec

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with the colour of the other segments.

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matter.

~ As it grows so rapidly, it is advisable to repot the
species is easily multiplied by division.

y reason of their long and graceful
leaves, and especially by their free-flowering qualities. Each raceme bears from

The variety which we figure to-day is distinguished by the colour of the
front lobe of the lip, which is much brighter than usual. It is of a superb

coppery purple red, very dark on the margins, and forms a very elegant contrast

This variety made its appearance this year in the houses and among the

of Brussels.

C. Lowianum, as well as the present variety, is a native of Burma. It flowers
in spring, from March to June, and the flowers remain in perfection for a long

flowers develop very slowly.

The culture of C. Lowianum is easy. The failures which some cultivators
occasionally experience usually arises from keeping the plants constantly in too
high a temperature, an error which is easily explained by the habitat of the
species. But although Cymbidium Lowianum comes from a part of tropical Asia,
it requires only a moderate temperature, that is, about midway between the
temperate and warm houses, and especially in a light and well ventilated com-

The compost should be substantial, and occasional waterings with weak
liquid manure should be given. In fact Cymbidiums, though spoken of as epiphytal,
are analogous with terrestrial Orchids in their vegetation, and are generally found
in the cavities of old trees or in crevices of rocks filled with moss and vegetable

Cymbidium Lowianum requires abundance of water during its growing season.

plants every second year. This

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crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

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Zygopetalum grandiflorum Hemsl. . . . 21 | Cattleyavelutina Rchb.f... . . . . . 25
Lycaste cinnabarina Rolfe. . . . . . 23 | Vanda tricolor Lindl. var. Hoveae L. Lind. 27

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THE LARGE FLOWERED ZYGOPETALUM.

ZYGOPETALUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 27.
Zygopetalum grandiflorum. Pseudobulbi ovati, lucidi, diphylli. Folia valde coriacea, lanceolata, acutissima.

Scapi basilares, breves, 2-5-flori. Bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, acutae. Sepala | 1 patentia, subaequali

Petala sepalis similia. Labellum brevissime unguiculatum, articulatum, trilobum, lobo intermedio late orbiculari-ovato

denticulato apice acuminato recurvo, | erectis semi blongis denticulatis, crista carnosa transversa
spinoso-denticulata. Columna arcuata, alis rotundato-oblongis truncatis denticulatis.

Zygopetalum grandiflorum HEMSL. Biol. Centr. Amer., Il, p. 251. — VeItcH Man. Orch., IX, p. 52.

Galeottia grandiflora Ricu. et GAL. in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 3, III, p. 25.

Batemania grandiflora Reus. F. in Bonplandia, IV (1856), p. 323. — Ip. in Wap. Ann., VI, p. 555. —
Bot. Mag., t. 5567.

his is a very remarkable species, and very seldom met with in culti-
vation. It was originally described by Ricnarp and Gaterorti, under
| the name of Galeottia grandiflora, from dried specimens collected by
the latter in Mexico.

It appears to have next been met with in New Granada, by the collec-
tors of M. J. Linpen, who sent living plants to Europe. One of the earliest
cultivators of the plant was the late M. Sicismunp Rucker, of West Hill,
Wandsworth, in whose collection it flowered in 1865 (probably not for the first
time, however), when it was figured in the Botanical Magazine.

It was also met with in British Honduras, in April, 1887, by M. Brancaneaux,
who sent dried specimens to Messrs James Verrcu & Sons, of Chelsea. M. Bian-
CANEAUX States that he found the plant in full bloom at 3,600 feet elevation, in a
temperature ranging from 50 to 85 degrees. It was growing on a tree overhanging
a mountain stream in an entirely shady place, a species of Stanhopea also
growing profusely in the same locality, which it somewhat resembled in habit.
This note is interesting, as affording an indication of the treatment necessary
for the successful cultivation of the plant.

The species appears to be very widely diffused, for a recent importation
is said to have been made from northern Peru, where it was met with by
Mr. Buncerorg, in the province of Truxillo.

It is a somewhat anomalous species, referred to the section Huntleya, with
the other species of Batemania described by Reicuensacu, though it differs from
its allies in having pseudobulbs, and a two- to five-flowered inflorescence. The
scapes are very short, and the flowers three inches in diameter. The sepals and

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petals are light green with five to seven ;
sharply denticulate at the margin, white with red-purple raised lines, which are
also denticulate. The crest is semicircular, orange-yellow, with numerous red
brown radiating ridges, each of which terminates in a spine-like tooth in front.

As regards its cultivation very little is known, except that it grows wild in
company with Stanhopea, and we therefore recommend that it should be grown

under identical conditions.
R. A. ROo.FE.

EULOPHIELLA ELISABETHAE.

“ The Standard ” of October 23 last has published the following letter,
from the well-known explorer, the Rev. R. Baron : —

“ To tan Eprror or * Tue SranparD ”

Sir. — In The Standard of July 25 there is a translation of a letter adressed to Messrs. SANDER,
of St. Albans, the well-known Orchid-growers, from M. Hametin, the discoverer (?) of the new
Orchid from Madagascar, the Ewlophiella Elisabethae. As 1 have been a resident in Madagascar
for more than twenty years, and have probably travelled more in the island than any other
European, and have gathered many thousands of plants in the north, south, east and west, I have
felt constrained to write to you on the subject.

Whether to secure a high price for the Orchid, I cannot say, but certain it is that many-nay,
most of the statements made by this gentleman are somewhat imaginary.

The procuring of the Orchid has been surrounded by an air of mystery and danger which
makes the story utterly incredible to anyone acquainted with Madagascar. The narrative is larded
throughout with such phrases as the following : — * Eulophiella Elisabethae hardly exists now.
The plant grows in a country inaccessible to Europeans. I had a special privilege accorded me to
penetrate those regions ” etc. “ This plant only grows in a very limited region ,, (I believe he

somewhere states a “ swamp ”)..... “on the tops of the tallest trees. ” “ Under the special care of
_my brother in blood..... to prevent the total extinction of the species.” “ Amateurs may trust that
no plant of this species can or will be imported.” “ Enormous difficulties and manifold dangers

have to be surmounted before even the country where they grow can be reached.” “ I had numerous
obstacles to overcome, and was obliged to make enormous sacrifices, and to incur fearful
expenses, ” etc. “ An amateur paying one hundred shillings for a plant would not cover the cost.
Not counting the constant exposure of my life, and the lives of those accompanying me — not only
was our party exposed to the risk of being strangled by ferocious and hostile tribesmen, a fate that
befell many a poor fellow belonging to our expedition, but we had to struggle almost nie and da.
against the wild animals haunting these primeval forests. The most terrible of all is the ee as
ferox Madagascariensis (sic), against which we had constantly to be on guard. During the daytime
it is extremely dangerous, for it crouches in the forks of trees,.... and watches for its prey
“ Big fires had to be constantly kept up, ” etc. The favorite haunt of the Protocrypta ferox ee
wy be amongst the masses of foliage where the Eulophiella grew. Here they were numerous.”
Appalling danger. ” “ There are also some gigantic hippopotamus and rhinoceros fossils in
Madagascar, which I found in certain parts, and which, according to their bones, must b 1
six times as large as our elephants. ” cig eas

Now the truth is that no rhinoceros bones have ever been discovered in Madagascar, and the

bones of the extinct hippopotamus indi i of
ppop icate an animal “ of rather small dimensions. ” It is simply in

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THE CINNABAR LYCASTE.

LYCASTE. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., Ill, p. 11.

Lycaste cinnabarina, Pseudobulbi ovoideo-oblongi 8,5 cm. longi. Folia 1

. elliptico-oblonga, subacuta,
basi attenuata, 70 cm. longa, 13 cm. lata. Scapi circa 15 cm. alti, vaginae 3-4 cm. longae. Sepalum posticum lanceolato-
oblongum, subobtusum, 6-8 cm. longum, 2 cm. latum ; lateralia falcata, caeteris similia ; mentum obtusum, I cm.
longum. Petala elliptico-oblonga, subobtusa, basi attenuata, 6 cm. longa, 2 cm. lata. Labellum elliptico-oblongum,
obscure trilobum, basi attenuatum, 4 cm. longum, lobis lateralibus parvis rotundatis obtusis, intermedio orbiculari-
oblongo, obtuso v. emarginato undulato denticulato, callo magno carnoso truncato. Columna clavata.

Lycaste cinnabarina ROLFE in Orchid Review, I, p. 303.

his handsome Lycaste was discovered by Warscewicz, at the sources of
the Maranon River, Peru, as long ago as 1853. It was included in the
Catalogue of Warscewicz’s sale, under the name of Mavillaria cinna-
barina Linvt., as “ a new species, with pale yellowish green flowers and a rich
apricot-coloured lip. ” This however appears to refer to dried specimens, not to
living plants. It is interesting to record that the species has now appeared in
cultivation, having been introduced from Peru by Messrs Linpen, L’Horricut-
TURE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, in whose establishment it has recently flowered.
The species is allied to L. mesochlaena Reus. ¥. and L. gigantea Linvt. In the
shape of the sepals and petals it much resembles the former, also in its light
yellowish green colour; but the lip is totally different in both respects. The side
lobes are small and rounded, in fact nearly obsolete instead of being oblong and
well developed, while the colour, instead of being similar to that of the sepals
and petals, is of a deep apricot or light orange-brown, which forms an elegant
contrast with the sepals and petals. The front lobe is undulate and slightly
denticulate, especially on the sides. L. gigantea has long scapes and longer more
acute sepals and petals, besides which, in this species, the bract is three times
as long as the ovary.

Several of Warscewicz’s Peruvian species have remained almost unknown
for long periods after their original discovery, and their re-appearance is certainly
very interesting. Odontoglossum praestans, figured some time ago in this work, is
another of these Warscewiczian plants, of which prior to its rediscovery very
little was known.

Lycaste cinnabarina will doubtless succeed well under the same treatment as
its allies, and from its distinctly contrasted colours will probably form a welcome
addition to the group with ciliated lips, which includes L. costata LinDL.,

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L. mesochlaena Rene. F. (often cultivated under the preceding name), L. /ulvescens
Hoox., L. gigantea Linvu., L. lanipes Linvv., L. linguella Reus. F., and two or

three other species more rarely met with in gardens.
Re A ROvrE:

(Concluded from p. 22.)

the interest of truth, and because these adventures have been given such prominence in so many
English papers, that I write you these lines. To me the only valuable fact connected with this

story is that M. Hame in has discovered a new and interesting Orchid somewhere in Madagascar, -

probably in the south or south-west, where travelling is somewhat dangerous.
I -amy;Sir, etc.
R. Baron.
Antananarivo, Madagascar, September 12.

To the above letter, we hardy need to add further comment.

ORCHID CULTURE IN BELGIUM AND IN ENGLAND.

The Fournal des Orchidées for October 15 contains an article by M. Lucien LINDEN, in
which he compares the English and Belgian methods of growing Orchids. He says of us,

that “ Our neighbours are, as is well known, excellent growers of Orchids. The splendid

specimens and the admirable show of bloom in the collections of the principal English
amateurs afford sufficient proof of this. At the same time, I have been struck with certain
differences from our methods of treatment, which I consider show the superiority of the
Belgian method of cultivating Orchids. The chief difference seems to me to consist in the
deficient supply of air and light, and to my mind this is of great importance. In the second
place, the plants are usually too dry. Many Orchidhouses in England are half-span,
consequently badly lighted and insufficiently ventilated, even those where Odontoglossums
from the Cordilleras are grown, though these especially require free circulation of the air.
The ventilators are too few, too small, and evidently are hardly ever opened. I have some-
times seen them formed of perforated zinc, through which hardly any air passes, and
sometimes too little top air is afforded. Almost everywhere I noticed a most objectionable
custom, that of covering the stages with a thick layer of coke of charcoal, instead of using
open-work stages, which allow the air to circulate between the pots. I also observed an
excessive temperature in many houses, especially in those devoted to Odontoglossums and
Masdevallias. Many growers pay too little attention to the supply of light; their houses
are darkened, frequently with a rather thick blind. Our lattice-work screens temper the
light, and are much to be commended. English growers trust entirely to the resting-season
to ripen their plants, and they attach so much importance tho this period, that they keep
their Orchids extremely dry even during their growth. In England there is not seen that
vigorous growth which is shown in plants grown according to the Belgian methods.

(To be continued on p. 28.)

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THE VELVETY CATTLEYA.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 7.

Cattleya velutina, Pseudobulbi elongati, teretes, graciles, diphylli, 30-46 cm. longi. Folia oblonga v. lanceolato-
oblonga, obtusa, 10-12 poll. longa. Spatha lineari-oblonga, subacuta, 2 1/2-3 poll. longa. Racemus 2-4 florus. Sepala
lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, apice recurva, posticum 6-7 cm. longum, lateralia falcata, 5 cm. longa. Petala falcata,
elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, basi attenuata. Labellum panduratum 5 cm, longum, lobis lateralibus parvis semiorbicularibus,
intermedio orbiculari v. reniformi-orbiculari obtuso v. emarginato undulato, disco omnino velutino. Columna arcuata,
2 cm. longa.

Cattleya velutina Rous. F. in Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 140 et p. 1373. — Ip., 1872, p. 1259, fig. 288, 289. —
Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, I, t. 26. — VerrcH Man. Orch., Il, p. 87. — RoLre in Gard. Chron., 1889, i,
p- 802 et ii, p. 4o1.

Var, Lietzei RecuL in Gartenflora, XXXVII, p. 49, t. 1265.

his handsome Cattleya was originally described in 1870, from a plant
which flowered in the collection of JoszpH Broome, Esq., of Didsbury,
4 3 near Manchester. It was said to have been received in a collection
obtained through a collector whose head-quarters were at Rio. It was described
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a very interesting and intricate novelty. The pollen apparatus is quite
genuine, as in all Epidendrums. Hence, if it is a mule, it is at least from genuine
Cattleyoid parents. If we were entitled to offer some hypothesis, we might suggest
that it may have descended from Cattleya Walkeriana Garon. (bulbosa LinbL.) and
from C. Schilleriana Rous. r. ” The flowers were also said to be so fragrant as to
perfume the whole house in which they were grown. The sepals and petals were
described as olive-green with some purplish spots in rows, and the lip yellow,
rosy in front, with dark purplish veins, and wholly velvety.

Soon afterwards a much finer variety appeared, in the collection of Consul
ScHILLER, at Hamburg, with the sepals and petals light orange, covered with
many purplish spots and streaks. Rercuznspacu then remarked that if the plant
was a mule, Cattleya bicolor might be one of the parents. “ We would advise all
the possessors of Cattleya bicolor, ” he added, “ and especially of recently
introduced plants, not to dispose of their specimens before they flower, since it
would be very tantalising to ascertain at a later period that a plant supposed to
be one of that old species had proved to belong to such a first rate beauty as the
present. ”

In 1873 another plant appeared, in the collection of E. G. Wrictey, Esq.,
of Broad Oaks, Bury, Lancashire, which RricHEnBacu said was quite like the
original form.

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received. In 1887, Messrs VEITCH PemarkedsOteites a. A supposed hybrid of
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parentage to C. bicolor and one of the C. gutta
imported, appears to be supported by the best evidence.... Recent importations
of this Cattleya from Brazil prove that it exists in numbers much less restricted
than is usually the case with supposed hybrids; it may, therefore, hereafter
receive specific rank. ”

In 1889, for the first time, I had the opportunity of examining living flowers,
and wrote — “ I fail to find any trace of hybrid origin, and believe it to be a
genuine and very distinct species, not approaching any other in the peculiar
form of the lip. ”

From these remarks it will be seen that for many years this beautiful Cattleya
was regarded as a plant of very doubtful origin. How it ever came to be regarded
as a natural hybrid I cannot conceive, for there is no combination of species
which could possibly yield a lip like that of C. velutina, and the same remark
also applies to the sepals and petals. The apparent rarity of the plant perhaps
lent some support to the hypothesis, but rarity is of itself no test, otherwise the
remarkable Cattleya iricolor Reus. F. might be regarded as a natural hybrid, as
for nearly twenty years it has only been known from one or two plants. But here
again it may be observed that no possible combination would produce a hybrid
similar in character. Like C. velutina, it is probably common enough in its
unknown habitat, which sooner or later will probably be discovered, when the
plant may become more common in cultivation. Cattleya Dormaniana Reus. F.
is another plant which for a long period was considered to be a natural hybrid,
though for no better reason.

To neuen to Cattleya velutina, a glance at our illustration will give a better
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THE THREE-COLOURED VANDA, MADAME VAN DEN HOVE’S
VARIETY.

VANDA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., IV, p. qr.
Vanda tricolor. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., V, p. 21.
Var. Hoveae L. Linp., supra.

he Lindenia has already figured, in preceding volumes, the typical Vanda
tricolor (t. 167), and more recently its remarkable variety planilabris (t. 369).
The present variety admirably completes the series, which together
show the marvellous range of colour which is met with in this beautiful species.

Vanda tricolor closely resembles V. suavis in its vegetative organs, and, like

it, has numerous varieties, whose colours are so diverse that it is sometimes
difficult without long experience to determine to which of the two certain forms
belong.

There is, however, one difference wich may easily he determined, namely
the disposition of the petals. These organs are reflexed in Vanda suavis, while
they are spreading, like the sepals, in V. tricolor. This latter species therefore
displays itself better and has more elegant flowers.

It. would not be an easy task to enumerate all the named varieties of
V. tricolor, although some amateurs possess very complete collections. When
the plants are in flower they present a beautiful spectacle. In the front rank
among amateurs of Vanda may be mentioned M. G. Warocgus, in Belgium,
and, in France, M. A. bE 1a DevANsAyE, who sent to a meeting of the
OrcuipEENNE during the present year a magnificent series of named forms.

The present variety is dedicated to the regretted Madame Van DEN Hoye,
mother of Madame Lucien Linpen. This variety, which flowered about the
middle of last year in the houses of the Horvicutture INTERNATIONALE, is
remarkable for its very delicate colour, shaded in an exquisite manner, of which
the annexed plate gives a very exact idea.

For the cultivation of Vandas plenty of humidity is required, and an equally
pure atmosphere. During the period of active growth it is advisable to moisten
the compost every day. The air should be seldom renewed, because the atmos-
phere of our climate is too dry for these beautiful Orchids. The rays of the
sun should also not be allowed to reach the plants during the warmest days
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‘The compost suitable for Vandas should be pure sphagnum. We generally
cultivate them in baskets with plenty of drainage, consisting of broken glass
and earthenware. When the roots have completely filled the baskets we cut
the brass-wire which holds the bars together, and detach the lower ones, so
that the basket is open at the bottom. We then remove the drainage, cut
away all the dead parts of the roots and stem, replace with fresh sphagnum
and drainage, and then refasten the bars.

When these Vandas lose their leaves, it is customary to hide the naked
parts, which present an ungraceful appearance. We therefore proceed in some-
thing like the following manner. We detach the wire at the top, and add two
or three fresh bars on either side, so as to increase the height, and then fill
up this added portion with fresh sphagnum, which thus hides the naked part
of the stem.

On the other hand, if we wish to avoid giving the baskets an increased
height, we remove some of the bars at the base at the same time as others
are added at the top.

The temperature suitable for Vandas during the winter ranges between
65° and 75° Fahr. Vanda Amesiana, V. Kimballiana and V. coerulea, however,
succeed best under an appreciably lower temperature.

(Continued from p. 24.)

Orchids are less green, have fewer roots, and have much more slender floral stems. The
Belgian cultivators water much more, and give a less long repose, but especially they give
more air, and it is chiefly—as M. VAN ImscHooT remarked before me to an English
gardener—air which ripens our plants. M. Canuzac has also recently drawn a comparison
between the English and the Belgian gardener. The Belgian gardener is a more zealous
worker, a most attentive observer of the thousand little matters of detail which the inexpe-
rienced would consider trifles, but which are really of great importance, he has more
thought and interest, he varies his methods, has better taste, ‘and he more readily
adopts novelties, but he has not the patience, the trustworthiness (solidité), or the punctua-
lity of the English gardener; the latter also knows the names of his plants better, has a
better manner, is more particular in his dress and appearence; and is, in short, better
educated. ”
(The Gardeners’ Chronicle, November 4, 1893.)

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING NUMBERS:

ist Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
> parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina, | renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium > Des- dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
boisianum, Cypripedium % Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

2-4 Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani. Burlingtonia pu- | Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya X | X Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthes leucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum, | crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium X Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco- | nipedium x calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

‘lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

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phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste | Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venustas
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum X excellens var. dellense, | Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum. ;
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Part XXXIV. NoveMBER 1893.

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THE COLOURED PORTRAITS BY
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CONTENTS :
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4 Three Hybrid Cypripediums . . . . 29 | Cattleya Aclandiae Lindl. var. salmonea Hort, 33
Maxillaria striata Rolfe. . . . . .., 31 | Aganisia lepida Lind. et Rchb.f. . . , 35
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THREE HYBRID CYPRIPEDIUMS.

1, CYPRIPEDIUM X CLAUDII tv. uinp.
2, CYPRIPEDIUM X LATHAMIANUM rcup. Fr.
3, CYPRIPEDIUM X WEATHERSIANUM Lt. uinp.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 31.

a he genus Cypripedium is the one in which the ingenuity of the
| hybridists has been most put into practice, and the list of hybrids
artificially produced is now very considerable. This same abundance
allows us to exercise a rigorous selection, and to reject all the more ordinary
forms, for, limiting ourselves strictly to the more beautiful forms, the genus has
been definitely enriched by a large number of new hybrids which will remain,
and gradually form a magnificent series of extraordinary diversity.

The three hybrids which we now figure on one and the same plate are
all likely to become popular. Two of them were raised in Belgium, the third
originated in England.

Cypripedium X Claudii made its appearance in the month of February last,
at the monthly meeting of the Orcuipgenne, of Brussels, being exhibited by
M. Moens, of Lede, and it is dedicated to this amateur, whose seedlings
have for several years obtained such great success.

It is the result of crossing C. Spicerianum 2 and C. X vernixium ¢. The
latter is itself a hybrid between C. Argus and C. villosum, which fact enables
us to judge pretty nearly the qualities of C. Claudii, and in fact we find
in the flower the effect of all these three influences. It is remarkable for the
elegance of the dorsal sepal, which in shape recalls C. Spicerianum, but the
colour is very charming. The basal part is clear green, the median nerve
is marked by a broad blackish purple band, and on either side of it extends
a series of fine bright purple parallel lines which extend towards. the summit.
The petals are broad, drooping, and recall those of C. villoswm, but they
are of a shining reddish brown, with a darker median band, and the basal
part clear green, covered with minute blackish spots.

C. X Claudi obtained a First-class Diploma of Honour at a Meeting of the
OrcuIDEENNE, of Brussels, in February last.

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C. X% Lathamianum is more ancient, and dates from ee It was obtained
by M W. B. Laruam, Curator of the Birmingham Botanic Garden, to whom
it was dedicated by REICHENBACH.

It was obtained from C. Spicerranum 9 and C. villosum f, and is well inter-
mediate between the two parents. It has the general shape of the latter, which
it much resembles in the lower part of the flower, while in the dorsal sepal
it recalls the former. This organ is white, with a dark purple median band,
green at the base with some rose-purple lines which extend towards the summit.
The petals are of a pretty shining yellow, with a dark median line, and the
margin undulated towards the base; the apical half much broader and of a
darker yellow-brown than the basal one. The lip is much like that of C. villosum,
but of a bright yellow-brown colour.

The same hybrid has been raised by M. Brsu, and exhibited by him
in 1891 under the name of C. X Spicero-villosum.

The flower figured in our plate is considered as a superior variety, and
is remarkable for its size and the beauty of its colour. It obtained a First-class
Certificate of Merit at a Meeting of the OrcuipEENNE in February last, under the
name of C. X Lathamianum var. Lindent.

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C. X Weathersianum is descended from C. X Leeanum superbum crossed
with the pollen of C. hirsutissimum, and flowered for the first time in February
last, at the Hortricutture INTERNATIONALE. It is dedicated to Mr. P. WEaTHERs,
the representative of this Society in England, and brother of the assistant
secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, of London.

This hybrid belongs also to the rich family of C. Spicerianum, from which
C. X Leeanum was obtained.

It is quite intermediate between its two parents, and possesses a remar-
kable elegance. The dorsal sepal is oblong in shape, with the margins reflexed
near the base. The colour is white, with the lower third clear green, and
bearing reddish purple longitudinal lines, forming a very graceful effect, with
a median line of dark purple, as in nearly all the descendents of C. Spicerianum.
The petals recall those of C. hirsutissimum, but are less enlarged at their

extremities, more deflexed, and more elegant in appearance. The lip is vinous
purple.

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MAXILLARIA STRIATA ro xre.
THE STRIPED MAXILLARIA.

MAXILLARIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. IV, p. 37.

Maxillaria striata, Pseudobulbi oblongi, subcompressi, 6-8 cm, longi. Folia recurva, lineari-oblonga, subobtusa,
30-35 cm. longa, 4-6 cm, lata. Scapi erecti, 30 cm. alti, erecti, vaginis spathaceis tecti. Bracteae ovato-lanceolatae,
sabacutae. Sepalum posticum oblongo-lanceolatum, subacutum, 7 cm. longum, 1 cm. latum; lateralia subfalcata, basi

latiora, apice subattenuata; mentum subconicum, 2 cm. longum. Petala lineari

» acuta, subfal > 5 cm.
longa, 1 cm. lata, Labellum basi attenuatum, dein triangulo-ovatum, undulatum, apice recurvum, obtusum ; callo
oblongo, carnoso, apice rotundato. Columna clavata, 2 cm. longa.

Maxillaria striata RoL¥E in Orchid Review, 1, p. 266. — Fourn. des Orch., IV, pp. 200, 201, fig. 64.

he species of this rather extensive genus do not as a rule find much
| favour among cultivators of Orchids, though there are several excep-

# tions, principally among the large-flowered kinds, such as M. grandi-
ioe M. luteo-alba, M. venusta, and especially the handsome M. Sanderiana. The
present species is the latest addition to the group. It is a native of Peru, and was
introduced to cultivation by Messrs Linpen, L’HorricuLTure INTERNATIONALE,
Brussels, in whose establishment it flowered for the first time in August last.

In shape it is about intermediate between M. grandiflora and M. venusta,
having the lip somewhat like the first-named, but the segments much longer
and more attenuated, in which respect it approaches the latter, though the
flowers are larger than in either. The sepals and petals are regularly striped
with reddish-purple lines on a greenish yellow ground, while the lip is white
with radiating purple lines on the sides. It is very distinct, and a welcome
addition to the group, as its flowers are large and attractively coloured. The
name is given in allusion to the striped flowers.

The Maxillarias are plants of very easy culture, and for the most part
very floriferous. Most of them can be grown in the cool house, like Odon-
toglossums, though a few species, which grow at lower elevations, like a little
more heat. They should be planted in well-drained pots, the compost consisting
of fibrous peat and sphagnum moss. During the growing season they require
a liberal supply of water, and during the winter the compost should not be
allowed to become dry, though the amount of water should be much reduced
at this period.

Besides the species mentioned above, a considerable number of others are
scattered about in various collections, and, as many of them are both pretty and
very floriferous, it is a wonder that they are not more generally cultivated. The

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reason probably is that we have a plethora of showier things, and as only a
limited number cam be grown, the Maxillarias do not always find a place. The
present one, however, deserves a place wherever Maxillarias are grown.

R. A. Rotre.

ORCHID CULTURE IN BELGIUM AND IN ENGLAND.

(Extract from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, November 25)

The letter which Mr. Watson, the well-known assistant-curator at the Royal
Gardens, Kew, contributed to a recent number of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, seems
to convey the idea that in commenting upon certain methods of Orchid culture
pursued in England, and which seem to me less well understood in that country
than in Belgium, I have not rated the English gardeners at their right value. It
was before the publication of Mr. Warson’s letter, which appeared in your issue
of the 11th of this month, that I published in my Yournal des Orchidées on
November 1, the following commendation of his compatriots and his country :
— “ There are in England a great number of excellent gardeners. A visit to any
horticultural exhibition shows that, for there may be seen unrivalled specimens
of all classes of plants. Personally, I admire England with its scientific insti-
tutions, which are the first in the world, both as regards the progress in science
and their excellent organisation; for instance, the gardens at Kew and their
cultural achievements, their eminent botanists and wonderful herbarium. I admire
the English horticultural press, so generally useful, so progressive; also the
unrivalled private collections and fine horticultural establishments of this great
and noble country. ” I should not like any one to attribute to me in England,
where I have many friends, or elsewhere, any opinion which I do not really
hold, and Iam no * Chauyiniste. ”

I must further remark that I am only alluding to Orchids in the article
to which Mr. Watson alludes, the English are so superior in other branches of
horticulture that they may well yield to us in this. Mr. Watson makes a very true
remark concerning the special modes of cultivation peculiar to the respective
countries. But then he writes : — “ Certainly the Orchids generally in
M. Linven’s establishment are splendidly grown. I have never seen such fine
collections of Odontoglossums, Masdevallias, Vandas, and Cattleyas anywhere. ”
If he believes that these results are due to the fact that our ground is situated
Ineanigain the Luxembourg station and the Pare Léopold, I think he is making a
Wale Gitsteles, I know him to be too skillful and experienced not to have noticed
that if our cultivation of Orchids is so good it is because we endeavour to give

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CATTLEYA ACLANDIAE utwor. var. SALMONEA uworr.

LADY ACLAND’S CATTLEYA, SALMON-COLOURED VARIETY.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 7.
Cattleya Aclandia. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. IV, p. 23.

Var. salmonea. Varietas sepalis petalisque salmoneo-rubris atropurpureo maculatis.

gj ome time ago the typical form of this charming little Cattleya was
figured in the Lindenia, t. 346, when its history, affinities, geographical
distribution and culture were treated in some detail. As is well known,

the ‘flowers are subject to some variation as regards colour, and the present .

variety is one which appeared in one of the recent importations of the Horti-
CULTURE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, in which establishment it flowered some time
ago. It chiefly differs from the type in having the ground-colour of the flower of
a salmon-red tint, and thus contrasts effectively with the lighter-coloured forms.

It is a very handsome variety. :
R. A. Rotre.

(Continued from page 32.)

our plants an artificial climate like that of the regions whence they come. If
our Odontoglossums and Masdevallias surprise our visitors so much, is is because
in the houses which are assigned to them by us, they have as much air, light,
coolness, and moisture, as on the high Cordilleras. These methods are pursued in
accordance with the instructions of M. J. Liypen, my father, who brought back
from his long exploratory travels accurate observations. We have simulated the
climate of the Cordilleras as closely as possible, only the mountains are lacking.
This is the reason why no collector returning from Columbia but exclaims on
entering our alpine plant-houses, that he could believe himself again among the
Columbian mountains. This MM. Crars and Bunceroru told me two months
ago, and so M. Epouarp Krazocu, who has just travelled for us, said to me a
week ago. I do not experience the same feeling in the Odontoglossum-houses
which I have visited near London, and according to my habit of saying and
writing what I think frankly, T have said so in my Fournal des Orchidées, believing
that it would be useful to such of my English friends who ask me when they visit
our houses : — “ But how do you grow Orchids so well? Do you use manure? ”

This last question was put to me by Mr. Watson himself recently, and I assured

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him, as I have stated many times, that we use no manure, as could easily be
proved by analysing the compost. An artificial mountain climate, good and
sweet potting materials, rain-water invariably used for watering, and constant
attention; such are our secrets as regards the culture of Odontoglossums and
Masdevallias. It is plain to me that if this same treatment were adopted in
England — that is to say, that if to Orchids from the high Cordilleras were given
such a climate as that to which they are by nature accustomed — success in
cultivating Odontoglossums and Masdevallias would be as complete as with us.
I have said that the method of cultivating them with excessive heat, insufficient
ventilation, light and moisture, and on stages covered with coke, which intercept
the circulation of the air, is prejudicial to plants; I repeat, that I believe these
to be important matters. If the Gardeners’ Chronicle would give me space, I would
willingly contribute to it notes on our plan of cultivating Odontoglossum, Masde-
vallia, Vanda, Cattleya, and other species.

I could show, perhaps, in these articles that the difference in the climate
of England and Belgium is of little importance as regards plant-growing under
glass, and that it is always possible to artificially modify these climates, so as to
equalise them one with another. Far be it from me to think to thrust my plans
on English growers. It is even very probable that in England one might grow
Odontoglossums otherwise than is done in Belgium; but as I consider certain
Orchids less well treated in England than here, I must say that the system of
cultivation is badly arranged, that it is wanting in certain points, and that these
defects should be supplied. I claim that our climate goes for nothing in the end,
the proof of which is, that, as Mr. Watson himself says, there are many places
in Belgium, even among our own neighbours, where cultivation is far from

“

perfect. These persons have not yet found the “ something ” wanting. As to
blooming, it follows necessarily that this must be fine where the vegetation is
good and the pseudobulbs large and firm. Our visitors are always surprised at the
size and thickness of the flower-stems of our Odontoglossums, and at the profuse
blooming of most of our Orchids. Further, as I could explain in my articles,
preparation for the blooming is given great importance in our system of cultivation.

Before concluding this rather long note, allow me to reciprocate Mr. Watson’s
compliments as paid to our establishment by saying, that on my last visit to
England two months ago, I was struck with the cultural achievements in the
Royal Gardens, Kew; and let me offer my hearty congratulations to the Director
and Curators, as well as the managers of the collections of Baron Scuréprr,
Mr. Measures, and Sir Trevor Lawrence — the only large amateurs’ collections
I had time to visit — who will receive them as coming from a cosmopolitan
observer, who can appreciate fine plants wherever found, and is convinced that
the word “ nationality ” has no importance in horticulture; that there are skilled
and unskilled men everywhere, that birth-place goes for little in a man’s character,
and should influence (passzoner) no one. Lucien Linpen, Brussels, Nov. 14, 1893.

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AGANISIA LEPIDA Linp. et rcuB. F.
THE ELEGANT AGANISIA.

AGANISIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. 1, p. 51.

Aganisia lepida. Terrestris, Pseudobulbi approximati,

idei, apice cicatricibus foliorum dejectorum.
Folia a vaginis paucis stipata, duo cuneato-ligulata, acuminata, plicata, nervosa, pollices paucos (tres usque quatuor)
longa, vix unum medio lata? Pedunculus versus basin paucivaginatus, apice biflorus (certe etiam pluriflorus), racemosus.
Bracteae triangulae, squamiformes, valde abbreviatae. Sepalum posticum cuneato-obovatum, acutum ; lateralia oblonga,
apiculata, recta. Labellum ungue lato foveato; lamina hastato-sagittata, oblonga, acuta; callus transversus, semi-
lunatus gibberosus ante basin, apice excurrens in lineas tres carinatas, quarum externae divaricatae. Columna postica
circa androclinium angulata ; alis ascendentibus rhombeis ; rostello brevissime tridentato basi sulcis quaternis longi-
tudinalibus in juga quina diversa, quorum externa brevissima; internum longissimum. Anthera depressa oblonga acuta
postice gibberosa, valvulis in pagina inferiori geminis ; glandula triangula, dens ; ovarium pedicell,

violaceum,
Flos albus, Carinae labelli flavae. Columnae pars inferior pulchre violacea.

Hab. Ex ditione Rio Negri, Brasiliae, misit WALLIs.
Aganisia lepida LinD. et RcHB. F. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., XXXV, ii (1876), p. 15, t. 5.

he genus Aganisia forms a small but very interesting little group, though
for various reasons the species do not seem to obtain a permanent
footing in gardens. A. cyanea perhaps forms an exception, as its large
and beautiful lilac-blue flowers are to be found in certain collections at the proper

season, though this is a rare plant in cultivation, besides which it is often consi-
dered as forming a distinct genus, being the Acacallis cyanea of Linpury.

Aganisia ionoptera has also re-appeared in cultivation during recent years.
It is a pretty little species, which was figured at t. 287 of the present work.
Besides which two or three other species are occasionally met with, chiefly in
botanical collections.

The present species is a very pretty little plant, which was introduced to
cultivation as long ago as 1865, though it was soon afterwards lost sight of, and
has only quite recently re-appeared. It is a native of the Rio Negro district in
Brazil, where it was met with by Wattts, who sent living plants to M. LinpEn ;
and these, as already indicated, flowered in 1865, when a figure was given by
REICHENBACH, in his Xenia Orchidacea.

To Messrs Linen, L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, we are in-
debted for its re-introduction. It flowered in their establishment in August last,
and was exhibited at a meeting of the OrcHIDEENNE, when it was awarded a
first-class Dipléme d’honneur.

It is a charming plant, as the annexed plate will show, its large white
flowers being very effective. The keels are yellow and the lower part of the
column violet, the rest of the flower being white.

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It is much to be hoped that its culture is now better understood than when
originally introduced nearly thirty years ago, for this seems to have been the
difficulty with it. None of the group have a good record in this respect, which
is rather unfortunate in the case of a plant like the present. Being a terrestrial
plant and from a low elevation, it should be. placed in the warm house, and
liberally watered during the growing season. If more were known of the precise
conditions under which some of these plants occur in their native homes, there
would be a much better chance of success, as many failures are not so much due
to the impossibility of imitating the essential conditions under which they grow
as from want of information as to their requirements. Many Orchids which were
formerly considerable intractable are now easily grown, simply because their
requirements are now better understood. A few carefully conducted experiments
with some of these difficult plants would probably lead to some useful results.

R. A. Roire.

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING NUMBERS:

ist Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya | Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
> parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina, renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-
Cochlioda Notzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium x Des- dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
boisianum, Cypripedium Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium | Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae,

22d Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu- | Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya X | X Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthes leucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum, crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium x Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco- nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

3? Volume

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den- | teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo- Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria’ militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum excellens var. dellense, Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

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Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum | Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya x elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
Alexandrae var. tenebrosa, Cattleya x Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var. | vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Statteriana, Cattleya Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro- Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
corys, Cypripedium >< Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac- graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

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Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya | amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var, Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya x Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya | var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne | Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium & me- crispum var, Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia X Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya < | planilabris,

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AERIDES LAWRENCEAE krcup F.
LADY LAWRENCE'S AERIDES.

AERIDES. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p. 41.

Aerides Lawrenceae. Folia lineari-oblonga, inaequaliter biloba, recurva, 20-30 cm. longa, 3,5—-5 cm. lata.
Racemi elongati, penduli, densiflori. Flores speciosi. Sepala orbiculari-oblonga, obtusa, lateralia multo latiora, Petala
sepalis similia. Labellum profunde trilobum, lobis lateralibus dolabriformibus denticulatis erectis apice incurvis, inter-
medio ligulato emarginato v. obtuso latere recurvo crispulo-denticulato, calcari conico subobtuso incurvo, carinula
trilobula antice inclusa callis geminis crassis postice. Columna brevissima.

Aerides Lawrenceae RCHB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1883, ii, p. 460. — WARN. & WILL. Orchid Album, VI, t. 270.—
The Garden, XXXV, p. 484, t. 702. — VeITcH Man. Orch. Pl., VI, p. 71, cum xyl.

Var. Sanderianum. — Aerides Sanderianum Rcue. F. in Gard. Chron., 1884, ii, p. 134. — A. Lawrenceae
Sander’s subvariety, VertcH Man. Orch., VII, p. 72, cum xyl.

Var. Amesianum SANDER ex KRANZL. in Gard. Chron., 1891, I, p. 393. — Xenia Orchid., Il], p. 94, t. 252.

he beautiful Aévides Lawrenceae, one of the finest species of the genus,
| is a native of the Philippine Islands, whence it was introduced, in 1883,

through their collector R6seE.in. Its habitat is said to be in south-east
Mindanao, where it is abundant, especially, around Duvao, growing on trees in
light shade, or sometimes quite exposed. It is said to be often associated with
Vanda Sanderiana and Phalaenopsis Sanderiana, in some cases even growing on the
same tree. Aérides Roebelinii also grows in the same district, if not actually inter-
mixed with it.

It is allied to A. odoratum Lour., though a much finer plant in every
respect, with larger flowers, differently shaped side-lobes to the lip, and a longer
spur. It was described by Reicuenpacu, who dedicated it to Lady Lawrence,
wife of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., President of the Royal Horticultural Society.
It is stated in the original description that a plant of it was secured by Sir Trevor
LawrENCE at Stevens’ Rooms, after a spirited competition, for the sum of two-
hundred and thirty-five guineas, then one of the highest prices ever paid for an
Orchid.

A plant subsequently described as A. Sanderianwm Rcus., was imported
at the same time, and from the same locality, and is certainly nothing more than
a variety of A. Lawrenceae with a little more yellow in the ground colour of the
flowers. The leaves are also said to be a little narrower, but it is uncertain if
this character can be relied on. The variety Amesianum is a later introduction,
which is said to have rather shorter and more rigid leaves. It is therefore clear
that the species is somewhat variable, as was only to be expected.

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The sepals and petals are white with a rich amethyst-purple blotch at the apex.
The lip is also white, except the front lobe, which is bright amethyst-purple, and

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CATTLEYA ELDORADO ump. var. TREYERANAE 1. uno.
CATTLEYA ELDORADO, Mrs. D. TREYERAN’S VARIETY.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 5.
Cattleya Eldorado. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 47.
Var. Treyerani. L. LIND., supra.

he Lindenia has already figured several varieties of this beautiful species,
one of the most useful and of the most variable in the genus. The wide

range of these forms, however, is not nearly exhausted, and whilst
Tanae our work to the most remarkable between them, we are yet in a state
to offer the picture of several new varieties.

The one we now figure is of a very distinct character, and deserves a
prominent place in the species. In our opinion, it could even be considered
a natural hybrid between C. Eldorado and C. chocoensis; its remarkably large
petals, their particular habit, the pale rosy lilac colour of the petals and sepals,
closely recall the latter species, while the petals are far more spreading and the
flower has a better appearance. The lip, very large, is of the same rosy lilac
colour as the other segments, and bears beyond the throat a rich orange-coloured
spot, with darker streaks.

This superb variety was exhibited at a meeting of L’ORcH1D#ENNE, of Brussels,
on October 12 last, where it was awarded a First-class Certificate of merit.

It is dedicated to Mrs. D. Treveran, the wife of the distinguished orchidist
of Bordeaux, in whose collection it is now included.

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ORCHIDS. AND ORCHID. CULTIVATORS IN ENGLAND
AND BELGIUM.

I have read with great interest the views expressed on the one hand by the
nurserymen, and on the other by botanists, respecting Orchid culture in Belgium
and in this country; and as Orchid grower I would contribute my experience.
Having cultivated Orchids here and in Belgium, I may be excused for making
a few remarks on the subject. M. Lucten Liven, in the Fozrnal des Orchidées,
shows that he has excellent ideas as to the natural requirements of Orchids, a
practical knowledge of their cultivation, and of the beneficial results of scientific
methods of ventilation of the house in which they are grown, affording water,
and of the benefits of sunlight. I fully agree with him that open stages are better
for the plants than closed stages covered with moisture-retaining materials. But
in attempting to draw a comparison between our own cultivators and the
Belgians as regards the methods employed and general treatment, M. Lucren
Linven treads on dangerous ground so far as Orchid growing is concerned,
because there are really no comparisons to be drawn....

That the climatic and other conditions, not only of a country, but of a
locality, greatly aid, or are inimical to, the cultivation of plants, is too well
known to need further proof from me. Hundreds of instances could be quoted
regarding all kinds of plants, and I am continually noticing that some species of
Orchid do better in one part than in another, notwithstanding the careful culti-
vation bestowed on those which do not succeed. For instance, Odontoglossum
Alexandrae (crispum) succeeds in Belgium better than it does in England.

An English Orchid-grower may go to Belgium, and try to grow Odonto-
glossum Alexandrae, and he will meet with universal success, and grow them
better than he could at home. A Belgian grower may come to England, he may
also know how to grow them in his own country, but he will not meet with
uniform success, and will not grow this species so well as at home. This is a
fact which I have proved, and seen proved. Too much importance should not
be attributed to slight variations of methods and treatment, nor to the structure,
nor to the size of the ventilators. The clever Orchid cultivator is he who grows
the plants well under adverse climatic conditions, and in ill-adapted structures,
with insufficient ventilation, bad light, etc. He will vary the treatment according
to the prevailing conditions, and give the utmost amount of attention to the
needs of the plants, and it follows that there is no secret in cultivating Orchids,
neither in England nor in Belgium — it is a simple matter of attention.

(To be followed on p. 42.)

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CATASETUM IMSCHOOTIANUM tL. tinp. et coan.

M. A. VAN IMSCHOOT’S CATASETUM.

CATASETUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 7.

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Catasetum Imschooti F is robustis, oblongo-fusiformibus, leviter compressis, transverse obscure

annulatis ; foliis majusculis, late oblongo-ligulatis, acutis; racemis multifloris; floribus majusculis, pallide flavis; sepalis
petalisque tenuiter membranaceis mollibusque, erecto-patulis, late obovatis, 11-13 nerviis, sepalo dorsali obtusiusculo
caeteris acutis ; labello carnosulo, saccato, lobis lateralibus late rotundatis, margine denticulatis intus leviter replicatis,
lobo terminali crasse carnoso et rigido, apice subtruncato intus valde replicato; columna breviuscula, subrecta cli-
nandrio valde obliquo postice longiuscule rostrato, antennis aequilongis parallelibus antice leviter arcuatis.

Catasetum Imschootianum L. LinD. et CoGN. in Fourn. des Orch., 4me année, p. 266 (1893).— The Orchid Review
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Crescit in Brasilia.

his new species, which bears the name of Mr ALFrep Van Imscuoor, the
well-known Belgian Orchidist, has stout, bright green, oblong-fusiform
pseudobulbs, slightly compressed so as to offer an elliptical section,
obscurely marked with five or six transverse rings, 6 1/2 to 8 inches long,
1 5/, to 2 inches thick at their middle. Leaves more or less spreading, reflexed,
ligulate oblong, acute, nearly trinerved, the last at the base usually no more ‘than
5 /, to 6 inches long, but the apical ones attaining 20 inches in length and 3 */, in
breadth. Spikes multiflorous. Pedicel and ovary of a pale, somewhat greenish
yellow. Sepals and petals of a very pale, somewhat greenish yellow, very thin
and flaccid, all spreading and straightened towards the apex of the flower, rather
concave, obovate, 11 to 13 nerved, acute, excepting the dorsal sepal, which is
very obtuse, 12 tot 13 */, lines long, 7 to 7 */, broad. Lip of a soft yellow turning
to a dark brown at the apex, somewhat fleshy, broadly dilated into a pouch; side
lobes large, broadly rounded, enclosing loosely the column, with the margins
denticulate and somewhat turned inward, and a little prominent or obscure
midrib; frontal lobe only very fleshy and rigid, nearly: truncate and strongly
folded inward. Column very pale yellow, nearly straight, obtusely triquetrous,
5 inches long; clinandrium very oblique, rather long, elongated in a beak back-
wards; the two antennae yellowish, parallel and of the same length, projecting

forward in the pouch of the labellum, only curved toward their apex, 7-7 */, lines
long. The pollinia were already absent of the flowers which we have studied.
This species has the general habit of C. Hookeri Linot., its nearest ally,
though the later can be distinguished by numerous points, having considerably
smaller pseudobulbs, with a perfectly circular section, and well-marked, blackish-
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somewhat larger flowers, wholly of a rich light green, oblong, considerably
longer and narrower sepals, the dorsal one with seven nerves only; ovate and
somewhat obtuse petals; a far more fleshy lip, with smaller, obtuse side lobes,
each bearing a stout midrib, and an acute and erect front lobe; a longer column
(8 */, to g lines long) with far more curved antennae.

C. Imschootianum is a new and distinct addition to the series of curious forms
already known in the strange genus Catasetum, of which the present work has
figured the more remarkable species in the preceding volumes. It has been intro-
duced from Brazil by L’Horticurture INTERNATIONALE, of Brussels, through
their collector Mr. Ft. Crazs. A plant shown at a meeting of L’OrcHIDEENNE, on
November 19 last, bore several dense spikes of thirty to thirty-five flowers; it was
awarded a First-class Diploma of Honour.

A. Coaniaux.

(Continued from page 40.)

I think that Orchids in general do as well in the one country as in the other,
but Odontoglossum Alexandrae is an exception. Clearly, the Belgian has the
advantage in the climatic and other conditions; at the same time, I cannot say
what those conditions exactly are, being merely a cultivator of Orchids. It may
be that the air is purer, or it may also be that it is less pure than in these
islands. My opinion is, that the climate is better adapted for Orchids, the air
containing some kind of nourishment for Odontoglossum Alexandrae in Belgium
which is lacking here. In the former country the atmosphere is charged with the
gases arising from decaying animal and vegetable matter, and this is not so in
England, at least to the same extent; and in my humble opinion, and especially
in and near large towns, the air is impregnated to a high degree with chemical
gases instead.

The soil in that part of Belgium where I resided (Ghent) is pure sand, and
it consequently absorbs and gives off moisture very rapidly. The gardens and
fields must be manured for each crop, otherwise the returns will be small. The
manure is thrown over the land in a liquid form, and is, of course, quick in its
action on plants. The principal manure used is night-soil, which is collected
at midnight by tens of thousands of carts kept for the purpose, and it is taken
from the towns to all parts. The crops obtained are marvellous—better than any
I have seen on the best English loams. The value of this fertilising agent is
known in Belgium, and made use of; it is also known in England, but the
system of drainage employed by us diverts it into the sewers, often to the
enormous detriment of our streams. The question is, if our sewerage system will
not eventually prove to be a costly blunder and a national calamity.

(To be followed on p. 44.)

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CYPRIPEDIUM PHILIPPINENSE rcup. F.
THE PHILIPPINE CYPRIPEDIUM.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 31.

Cypripedium philippinense. Folia disticha, linearia, subobtusa, coriacea, viridia. Scapus erectus, pubescens,
3-5 florus. Bracteae ovatae, acutae. Sepalum posticum ovatum, acutum, lateralia connata postico conformia. Petala
sepalis quadruplo longiora, linearia, contorta, pendula, prope basin ciliata, undulata, glandulifera. Labellum oblongum,
parvum. Staminodium subcordatum, emarginatum, » margine put

Cypripedium philippinense RcHB. F. in Bonplandia (1862), p. 335. — VEITCH Man. Orch., IV, PP. 42, 43,
cum xyl. — Garden and Forest, 1890, pp. 308, 309, fig. 43.

Cypripedium laevigatum, BaTeM. in Bot. Mag., t. 5508. — Id. in Gard. Chron., 1865, p. 914, fig. a. —
Fl. Mag., 1866, t. 298. — Belg. Hort., XVII, p. 102, t. 6. — Fl. des Serres, t. 1760-1.

Cypripedium Roebelinii Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1883, ii, p. 684.

ypripedium philippinense was originally described in 1862 from a dried
specimen collected in the Philippine Islands, the collector not being
recorded. Two years afterwards it was introduced by the late Mr. Joun
Goutp Veircu, who had journeyed to the Philippines with the object of
obtaining, among other Orchids, Vanda Batemanii. The discovery has thus been
recorded : — “ He had long searched in vain for this plant, and had almost
began to despair of ever meeting with it, when one day running his boat
ashore on the south-west side of the small island of Guimaras, he found the rocks
by the coast covered with hugh masses of the plant of which he was in search,
and at the same time he found this Cypripedium growing on its roots. ” Plants
were sent home, which flowered for the first time in Europe in March 1865, when
Mr. Bateman, evidently unaware of its previous discovery, described it under the
name of C. laevigatum, under which name it was long known in gardens.

In 1883, a plant which had been collected by Rézexin, probably in the
island of Mindanao, was described by Reicnensacu under the name of C. Roebe-
lini, but it has proved to be only a form of the above-named species. It has
since been met with in one or two other Philippine localities, and the later
introductions have shown some slight variation from the original, though all

are evidently forms of the same species.

It belongs to the group with racemose flowers and is perhaps most nearly
allied to C. praestans Reus. r., from New Guinea. ReIcHENBACH compared it
with C. glanduliferwm Buiumn, another New Guinea species not yet introduced
to cultivation. These two New Guinea species have since been considered
synonymous, but from Brume’s careful analytical drawings, they are evidently
quite distinct in several essential details.

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C. philippinense has been utilised by the hybridists on several occasions.
For example, C. X selligerum Rcup. F. was obtained from it and C. barbatum
Linot.; C. X Vipani had C. nivewn Reus. ¥., for the other parent; C. Berenice
Rotre was derived from C. philippinense and C. Lowi Linvv., while C. X Alfred
N. E. Br., is descended from C. philippinense and C. venustum Watt. And there
are two or three other interesting hybrids partly derived from the same species.

R. A. ROLFE.

(Continued from p. 42.)

I think the ‘air in Belgium must be rich in nutritive matters which are
good for vegetation, and perhaps for mankind. But what about the water? a

plentiful supply of which is found to be a few feet from the surface, not hard, as’

ours often is, but quite as good and sometimes better for plants than rain-water.

Nicotine, the poisonous property of tobacco, is generally acknowledged to
be a useful agent in killing plant pests, and tobacco being cheap in Belgium,
the leaves are strawn under the stages, and the fumes that arise from them
effectually destroy thrips in a manner much more efficient than ours, which often
ruins the plants of Odontoglossum Alexandrae. I have also the notion that the
vapour from these leaves impart vigour to the plants...

(BURBERRY, in The Gardeners’ Chronicle, January 13, 1894.)

The matter referred-to in the preceding article is a very interesting one;
we do not agree with several of Mr Burzerry’s statements, and propose to

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edition ;

GONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING NUMBERS:

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Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
> parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina,
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium < Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

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Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanun, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-

dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

end Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya x
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthes leucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
> Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum,

34 Volume

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den- |
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
‘Jasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum > excellens var. dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae. var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae var. tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya < Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya X elegans var, Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

52 Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium > me-

moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia < Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya ><

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpnrea, ‘Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Mitonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

Uv,
i Parr XXXVI. January 1894.

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M. CHESTERTON’S CHONDRORHYNCHA.

CHONDRORHYNCHA. Sepala subaequilonga, anguste oblonga, posticum basi columnae adnatum, concavum,
carinatum, lateralia basi obliqua, pedi brevissimo columnae adnata. Petala sepalis multo latiora, obovato-oblonga.
Labellum cum pede columnae articulatum, sessile, latum, erectum, concavum, indivisum, basi intus callo tridentato
instructum. Columna semiteres, superne utrinque dilatata, basi in pedem brevissimum producta; clinandrium valde
obliquum, integrum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, unilocularis ; pollinia 4, cerea, angusta, acuminata,

per paria sibimet incumbentia, postice minora, i dicul: anthera dehi: stipiti crasso affixa, glandula molli.

Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus brevissimis plurifoliatis non pseudobulbosis. Folia oblonga, plicato-venosa, in
petiolum contracta. Scapus e rhizomate simplex, paucivaginatus, flore unico majusculo.

Species 4, Columbianae.

Chondrorhyncha LinDL. Orch, Linden., p. 12. — BENTH. et Hook. Fr. Gen. Plant., Ill, p. 548.

Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni, Affinis C. fimbriatae Reus. F., sepalis angustioribus, lateralibus acuminatis ; petalis
a basi cuneato-ligulatis longe fimbriatis; labello cuneato oblongo pandurato emarginato lobulato fimbriato, callo ante
basin, antice tridentato, area incrassata utrinque, dentes non attingente. Flores flavi. Nova Granada. Det. CHESTERTON.

Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni RcuB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1879, ii, p. 648.

he above is Retcuenzacn’s diagnosis of this rare and very imperfectly
| known species, published as long ago as 187g. Its further history is
thus recorded : —

“ This is a very remarkable Neo-Granadan discovery of Mr Cuesrerton,
whose herbarium is at hand. The flower is larger than that of the well-known
Chondrorhyncha (Stenia) funbriata. The sepals are narrower, the lateral ones
developing into a very long sharp point. The petals are narrower, with a very
much developed fringe, where there are but teeth to be seen in the old species.
The lip is narrower and much longer than that organ in C. fimbriata, with very
long fringes, and the anterior part of the callus stands with its three teeth
outside the thickened area, when the rather blunt callus of C. fimbriata stands
amidst it. ”

Whether the species ever passed into cultivation I do not know, but if so
it must have quickly disappeared, for I fail to trace any further record about it.
But it has now been introduced by Messrs Linpen, L’Horticutrure InTERNA-
TIONALE, Brussels, and we may hope that so beautiful a thing will secure a
permanent place in our collections, as the cultivation of these cool Orchids is
now so much better understood, and the allied C. Lendyana Reus. r., has been
successfully treated at Glasnevin, and elsewhere. It would be well, however, not
to be too sanguine, for ReicHenBacu, speaking of the allied C. fimbriata, in
Saunpers’ Refugium Botanicum, I, t. 107, remarked : —

“ There is no doubt that the plant is very curious, nor that it will have

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disappeared in a very short time from all our collections. M. Van BraNTEGHEM,
of Brussels, the skilful grower of cool Orchids, informs me that it is very difficult
and capricious. ” Mr Witson SAUNDERS, on the other hand, declares that
“ placed in a cool shady house it grows freely, and produces its flowers very
regularly, when potted in spongy peat and sphagnum and carefully drained. ”

Botanically it is allied to Warscewiczella and other genera, one of whose
peculiarities is that of not producing pseudobulbs, and these have ever proved
difficult to cultivate successfully in Europe. One great difficulty is the want of
information as to the precise conditions under which they grow in a wild state.
If these were accurately known it is probable that some of the difficulties would
vanish, as cultivators have been to a great extent experimenting in the dark.
Successful methods are sometimes hit upon under these circumstances, though
too frequently after long periods of disastrous failure, which a little correct
information might have prevented. In the culture of this species the conditions
mentioned by Mr Wirson Saunpers, as above cited, should be closely followed.

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CATASETUM RODIGASIANUM notre var. TENEBROSUM rote.
M. RODIGAS’S CATASETUM, DARK VARIETY.

CATASETUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 15.

Catasetum Rodigasianum. Pseudobulbo fusiformi crasso, foliis lanceolatis acutis plicatis 1 pedem longis, scapo
suberecto arcuato, racemo I pedem longo multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis acutis 6 lin. longis, sepalis reflexis late
lanceolatis acutis concavis I 1/3 poll. longis, petalis similibus erectis convexis, labello carnoso concavo late ovato 6 lin.
longo g lin. lato, apice breviter trilobo, lobis lateralibus subrotundis fimbriato-dentatis, apice paullo divergentibus,
columna clavata cirrhis subparallelibus.

Catasetum Rodigasianum ROLFE in Lindenia, VI, p. 41, t. 259.

Var. tenebrosum ROLFE supra.

few years ago Catasetum Rodigasianum was described, at t. 259 of the
present work. The species had been introduced from the province of
Santa Catherina, South Brazil, by Messrs LinpEn, and flowered in their

establishment. It also appeared in one or two English collections about the same
time. The species is characterised by its arching raceme of numerous flowers,
with the sepals and petals green, spotted with dark brown, and a concave
broadly ovate tridentate yellowish lip, with many small brown spots.

In July, 1892, another form appeared in the same establishment, which,
though obviously nearly allied, was at first thought to be distinct, though the
two are so similar in structural details that they are probably only forms of one
and the same species. A comparison of the two plates will show this. In the
present one the sepals are almost suffused with dark purple-brown; the petals
are green with several large deep purple-brown blotches, and the lip buff suffused
with light brown on the base and margins. The column is deep green, spotted
with dark purple-brown, and the antenuae parallel at the base but afterwards
diverging. There are some small structural differences in the lip, but Catasetums,
even of the same sex, are notoriously variable. It is also believed to be of
Brazilian origin. Those who have plants of it should look out for the appearance
of female flowers, which sooner or later will probably make their appearance, as
in the case of several other species. A great deal still remains to be discovered
before our knowledge of this interesting genus is complete.

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THE FORTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE “ ORCHIDEENNE. ”

The 49% Meeting, held on February 11, surpassed in richness the preceding one,
which was so much admired. The amateurs contributed in brillant fashion and sent the
principal pearls of their collections. Nearly all of the 140 Orchids exhibited deserve special
mention, and nearly all would have obtained awards if the Jury had not decided to raise
them to the same level as the quality of the exhibits, and thus render them less readily
attainable. ‘The fashionable visitors who thronged to the exhibition which followed the
Meeting greatly admired the plants, forming superb groups in the middle of the large
central gallery of the HorricULTURE INTERNATIONALE, transformed in very picturesque
fashion, and which was also a great success.

We must be content with citing very briefly, among the plants exhibited :

Odontoglossum Rosit maximum, with gigantic flowers, beautifully coloured and blotched
with bright brown; O. Cervantesit decorum, also very large and tinted in charming fashion ;
O. X Coradinei, Laelia anceps Dawsoni, bearing numerous flowers almost entirely white,
Cypripedium Salliert Hyeanwm and C. Boxallii atratum, two strong clumps well flowered,
and Maxillaria sp., from M. G. WarocQue;

The magnificent Odontoglossum x Harvengtense (crispum x sceptrum) resembling much
O. x excellens var. Dellense, but the colour more clear and, according to many, more
beautiful than this gem of Baron SCHRODER’S collection ; the charming Cypripedium x Niobe,
C. Argus Moensii, well flowered ; Cattleya Trianae, in very dark varieties and of superior
culture ; Dendrobium x Leechianum, with very large flowers; Pleurothallis Roezlit, a little
known species covered with flowers of dark garnet-colour, and which was certificated as
much for its merit as for its beautiful flowering, and the beautiful Odontoglossum x Riickert,
from M. comte DE BousIEsS;

The superb series of fourteen varieties of Cattleya Trianae, the colours varied and also
remarkable, from M. D. TREYERAN;

Dendrochilum glumaceum, an enormous tuft richly flowered and deliciously perfumed,
from M. Canuzac, who was present at the meeting, and was called by the members of the
Jury to preside over their deliberations ;

The beautiful flowers of Odontoglossum hybrids and O. baphicanthum, sent by M. Finer,
but unfortunately rather injured by the journey and the bad weather ;

The superb Odontoglossum x Impératrice de Russie (Halli x polyxanthum), well. inter-
mediate between the two parents, and Odontoglosswm crispum Dallemagneae, an excellent
variety, from M. DALLEMAGNE ;

The beautiful Dendrobium nobile nobilius, the charming Odontoglosswm Hunnewellianum,
and Cattleya guttata Prinzii, well flowered, from M. A. Van ImscHoort ;

The superb Cattleya Trianae, with flowers very large and richly coloured, the remar-
kable collection of Odontoglossum crispum, Riickerianum, Andersonianum, Rossit and Pesca-
toret, O. Edwardi, Lycaste Skinneri, well coloured; Cypripedium x Harvisianum superbum,
a very large and very dark form; C. Lawrenceanum nigrum, C: x Ashburtoniae I mschootia-
num, the dorsal sepal large and bearing a broad white border at the apex; C. Boxalli
atratun, remarkably dark; C. x Leeanum, and many interesting hybrids; Laelia anceps
Ballantineana, with white sepals and petals, from M. Mapovx;

The very interesting exhibit of M. A. BLevu, comprising Vanda Cathcarti, with
large and beautiful flowers, and two excellent hybrid Cypripedium, C. x Ivis and
C. x amethystinum ;

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CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 31.

Cypripedinm X Lawrebel, Hybridum inter Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Q et C, bellatulum o% artificiose productum.

Cypripedium X Lawrebel Hort. Gard. Chron., 1892, i, pp. 502 (Lawrebellum), 560, 561, fig. 82 (Laurebel), —
Journ. Hort., 1892, i, p. 294, 295, fig. 50 (Lawrebel). — Orchid Review, I, pp. 15, 351, 359-

he superb hybrid figured in the annexed plate was raised in the
collection of Sir TRevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, from
Lg Cypripedium Lawrenceanum crossed with the pollen of C. bellatulum. It
was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on April r2th., 1892,
when it was deservedly awarded a First-class Certificate, under the name of
C. X Lawrebellum. It was described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle as « a most beau-

tiful thing with flowers shaped more like those of C. Lawrenceanum than the
other parent. The whole flower was of a rich rosy crimson, with a tinge of green
at the base of the sepals and petals, and a pure white margin to the upper
sepal. The petals were spotted with chocolate colour and there were numerous
purplish-brown lines radiating from the base of the upper sepal. Foliage like
some forms of C. Lawrenceanum, but with the markings closer or smaller in
pattern. “ Shortly afterwards it was figured in the same work as C. X Laurebel.
The name.is an abbreviated form of the combined names of the two parent
species, at first used with the Latin termination, but afterwards changed into the
vernacular, though it is not clear why it should have been written with the
letter “ u, ” instead of “ w, ” in the latter form, unless by a slip.

A number of plants were raised, which, as is usual in the case of hybrids,
have shown some degree of variation between themselves, some of them incli-
ning most to the characters of C. Lawrenceanum, and others to those of C. bella-
tulum. The first which flowered produced a single-flowered scape, but with
increased strength some of them have developed twin-flowered ones. One of
them also produced a flower in which the lateral sepals were free, as recorded
in the Orchid Review, I, p. 351.

It is a robust grower, as might be inferred from the character of the two
parent species, and the flowers are large and very handsome, as may be seen in
the annexed plate, which has been taken from materials kindly communicated
by Sir Trevor Lawrence. Another inflorescence now before me, from the same
source, bears two flowers, the lower one with the dorsal sepal 2 */, inches across,
and the petals 2 ‘/, inches long by 1 inch broad, the upper one slightly smaller.
They show an unmistakeable combination of characters derived from the two
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regards colour, the characteristic markings of that species being stronghy deve-
loped on the dorsal sepal of the hybrid. The petals and lip are stronghy suffused
with the same peculiar stade of rosy-purple, the former showing numerous small
plackish brown spots near the base, and afew larger ones along the nerves.
The general shape of the flower may be described as about intermediate
between that of the two parents, with the staminode almost like that of
C. Lawrenceanum.

Altogether it is a most beautiful hybrid and a great acquisition in a group
which has produced many sterling novelties during the last few years, and from
which still more may be anticipated in the immediate future.

R. A. Rote.

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Dendrochilum glumacewm, a strong clump well flowered; the beautiful Cypripediwm x
Pauli eximium, the dorsal sepal richly spotted; Coelogyne cristata alba and Dendrochilum
glumaceum validum, from M. G. MITEAU;

The superb Cattleya Wambekeana, having the sepals and petals bright rose spotted
with dark purple at the tips, and the lip of a beautiful sombre reddish purple, from
M. Cu. VAN WAMBEEKE 3;

Cattleya labiata, in pretty varieties, from M. VANDERBORGHT ;

The magnificent Maxillaria mirabilis, a new species coloured with a very rich mixture
of bright yellow and red; Dendrobium Wardianum Lindeniae, with flowers entirely white,
except a yellow blotch in the throat of the lip; the rare Masdevallia Schroederiana, offering
in its colour a beautiful contrast of white and violet purple; Brassia Finetiana, Evia sp.,
Odontoglossum crispum, O. X Coradinei grandiflorum, Cattleya Trianae splendens and Pha-
laenopsis grandiflora alba, from M. LINDEN ;

Lycaste Skinneri, brightly coloured, and Odontoglossum Rossii, well flowered, from
M. pu TRIEU DE TERDONCK ;

A charming Cypripedium hybrid, from D* Capart;

The beautiful Cattleya Trianae, comprising many dark varieties and one very pale,
nearly white, from D* VAN CAUWELAERT;

The excellent Cypripedium x Leeanum Simonet, C. X Leeanum Vettchii, C. x Seege-
yianum, very analogous with C. polystigmaticum ; Dendrobium nobile majus, of beautiful bright
colour; Coelogyne cristata Lemomana, with a citron yellow blotch; from M. STEPMAN ;

Odontoglossum Edwardu, bearing two groups of elegantly coloured flowers, from
M. A. WINCQZ.

The Jury, composed of MM. Canuzac, President, DE BosSCHERE, Secretary, J. LINDEN,
G. Warocguf, Comte DE BousiEs, D' Capart, HouzeaAu DE LEHAIE, HUYBRECHTS,
Eu. Ropicas, DU TrIEU DE TERDONCK, A. VAN ImscHooT, CH. Van WAMBEKE, and
Cu. Vasseur, made the following awards : —

First-class Diplomas of Honour

To Maxillaria mirabilis, from M. LINDEN, unanimously and by acclamation ;
Odontoglossum X Harvengtense, from M. Comte DE Boustgs, unanimously and by
acclamation ;
Cattleya Wambekeana, from M. VAN WAMBEEE, unanimously and by acclamation ;

(To be continued on p. 52.)

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CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 31.

Cypripedium X conco-Lawre. Hybridum inter Cypripedium concolor 9 et C. Lawrenceanum oX artificiose productum.

Cypripedium > conco-Lawre Hort. Gard. Chron., 1893, i, p. 206. — Fourn. Hort., 1893, i, p. 193, fig. 41. —
Orchid Review, I, pp. 15, 94, 351.

nan article descriptive of the fine collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence,
Bart., Burford, Darking, published in the Orchid Review (vol. I, p. 15),

#) speaking of hybrid Cypripediums, the following note occurs : “ Yet
another, which may reasonably be expected to be a fine hybrid, is C. concolor
crossed with the pollen of C. Lawrenceanum. Its flowers are nearly open. In
habit it resembles C. concolor, but the foliage is longer, broader, and more
mottled. It should prove equal or superior to the beautiful C. y¢ tessellatum
porphyreum, which was derived from C. concolor? and C. barbatum or.” Shortly
afterwards, on February 14 th., 1893, it was exhibited at a meeting of the
Royal Horticultural Society, under the name of C. X conco-Lawre, and received
an Award of Merit, when it was further noted (p. 94) — “ the flowers are
creamy white speckled with rose, and somewhat resemble those of C. X Mar-
shalhanum. ” A woodcut was given in the pages of the Fournal of Horticulture,
as above cited. The scape was two-flowered, the uppermost flower not being
expanded. On October 10th. following it was again exhibited, on this occasion
showing two flowers fused together, like Siamese twins, which excited much
comment from lovers of the curious.

It is a decidedly handsome hybrid, as the annexed plate, which was
prepared from materials kindly forwarded by Sir Trevor Lawrence, will show.
In general habit it most resembles the seed parent, also in the colour of the
flowers, though in shape they are more nearly intermediate between the two
parents. The dorsal sepal is very broadly ovate, light creamy yellow lightly
suffused and veined with light purple. The petals are oblong and rather broad,
similar to the dorsal sepal in colour, with the addition of a few light rose-purple
spots, chiefly on the basal half. The lip is about intermediate in shape, light
creamy yellow in colour with some darker veins, and the staminode most like
that of C. Lawrenceanum.

It is a charming and delicately coloured hybrid, which can best be com-
pared with the beautiful C. x Marshallianum, a hybrid derived from C. venustum
pardinumg and C. concolor. Hybrids derived from C. concolor and its allies,

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C. niveum and C. bellatulum, are almost without exception elegant little plants,
and from the number of unflowered seedlings in various collections, a conside-
rable accession to their ranks may be anticipated during the next few years.

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Odontoglossum Impératrice de Russie, from M. DALLEMAGNE, unanimously ;
Dendrobium Wardianum Lindeniae (album), from M. LINDEN, wnanimously.

First-class Certificates of Merit

Cypripedium Xx Harvisianum superbum, from M. MADoux, unanimously ;
Odontoglossum Ruckeri, from M. CoMYTE DE BousiEs;
Odontoglossum Rossi maximum, from M. G. WarocQuE£;
Odontoglossum Ruckeri, from M. MaDouUx;

A group of Cattleya Trianae, from M. TREYERAN ;

Vanda Cathcartit, from M. BLEU;

Odontoglossum Riickeri, from M. MAboux;

_A group of Odontoglossum crispum, from M. MApboux;
Laelia anceps Dawsoni, from M. WAROCQUE ;
Cypripedium x Ivis, from M. BLEU;

Cypripedium x Niobe, from M. comte DE BOusIES ;
Cypripedium x Pauli eximium, from M. MITEAU;
Cattleya Trianae, from Dt VAN CAUWELAERT 5
Odontoglossum crispum, from M. Mapoux;

Cattleya Trianae, from M, MADoux ;

Cattleya Trianae, from M. MAbovx.

Second-class Certificates of Merit

Cattleya Trianae, from M. Comte DE BousrEs ;
Cattleya Trianae, from M. Comte DE Bousizs;
Masdevallia Schroederiana, from M. LINDEN; :
Cypripedium x Leeanum Simonei, from M. STEPMAN ;
Cattleya Trianae, from M. Comte DE BOUusIES.

First-class Cultural Certificates

Cypripedium Boxallit atratun, from M. Warocgué ;
Pleurothallis Roezlii, from M. Comte Dr BousiEs ;
Cypripedium Sallieri Hyeanwm, from M. WAROCQUE ;
Dendrochilum glumaceum, from M. CAHUZAC.

Second-class Cultural Certificates
Dendrochilum glumaceum, from M. MITEAU.

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INDEX OF CONTENTS.

PART VI.

Aerides Lawrenceae Rchb. f.

Aganisia lepida Lind. et Rchb. f.

Catasetum Imschootianum L. Lind. et Cogn.
Catasetum Rodigasianum Rolfe var. tenebrosum Rolfe.
Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var. Treyeranae L. Lind.
Cattleya Aclandiae Lindl. var. salmonea Hort.
Cattleya velutina Rchb. f. 4

Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni Rchb. f. :
Cymbidium grandiflorum Griff. var. punctatum Coes
Cymbidium Lowianum Rchb. f.

Cypripedium x Claudii L. Lind.

Cypripedium x conco-Lawre Hort.

Cypripedium x Lathamianum Rchb. f.

Cypripedium x Lawrebel Hort.

Cypripedium philippinense Rchb. f.

Cypripedium x Weathersianum L. Lind.

Galeandra Claesii Cogn.

Laelia purpurata Lindl. var. fasion Lind,
Laelio-Cattleya x eximia Hort.

Lycaste cinnabarina Rolfe.

Masdevallia x Pourbaixi Hort. .

Maxillaria striata Rolfe. é" 6
Odontoglossum Thompsonianum Games
Odontoglossum Triomphe de Rambouillet Hort.
Vanda tricolor Lindl. var. Hoveae L. Lind. .
Zygopetalum grandifloruam Hemsl. .

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING NUMBERS:

ist Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
> parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina ,
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium > Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium < Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

2nd Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya x
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthesleucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium x Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

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Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum excellens var. dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
X Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

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teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae var. tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya >< Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium X Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya X elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum -Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum

graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

52 Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya < Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya ¥<

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum

crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

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LINDENIA

ICONOGRAPHY
OF ORCHIDS

CONDUCTED BY

J. Linpen, Lucien Linpen and Em. Ropiaas.

THE COLOURED PORTRAITS BY
P. DE PANNEMAEKER, A. GOOSSENS and J. GOFFART.

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Lycaste X Imschootiana L. Lind. et Cogn.
Cypripedium Dallemagnei Hort. .

Lycaste Luciani Van Imsch. et Cogn. .

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CATTLEYA ELDORADO inp. var. OWEN] Hort.
CATTLEYA ELDORADO inp. var. LINDENI Horr.

CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 7.
Catileya Eldorado, Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., VI, p. 39.
Var, Oweni Hort. Fournal des Orchidées, IV, p. 245.
Var. Lindeni Horv., supra.

a he Lindenia has already published in preceding volumes some distinct

| and remarkable varieties of this magnificent species, and more recently
i still the rich variety C. E. Treyeranae.

The two forms figured in our present plate are equally deserving to be
enumerated among the most beautiful which this species has produced.

C. Eldorado Oweni is a superb form with white sepals and petals, and the lip
also nearly entirely white, except the orange blotch in the throat, and a broad
transverse band of bright rosy crimson across the front margin of the lip.

This distinct variety was exhibited with great success at the horticul-
tural meetings in Brussels and London on October 8th. and roth. 1893. A
First-class Certificate of Merit was given by the Jury of the OrcHmEEnneE, and
an Award of Merit by that of the Royal Horticultural Society.

It is dedicated to G. D. Owen, Esq, of Rotherham, the possessor of the rich
collection of which we have already had occasion to speak, and of which it now
forms a part.

C. Eldorado Lindent forms a curious and brilliant contrast with the preceding
by the bright rose colour of its flowers. The petals, which are large and well
displayed, are spotted with reddish purple at their extremities. The lip has the
throat and disc deep yellow or light orange, while the anterior border bears a rich
deep reddish purple blotch, extending nearly to the margins of the lateral lobes.

C. Eldorado Lindent, like the preceding, was exhibited at the Meeting of the
OrcHIDEENNE on October 8th., 1893, and was unanimously awarded a First-class
Certificate of Merit.

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THE FIFTIETH MEETING OF THE * ORCHIDEENNE ”

The so‘ meeting, held on March 11", was the occasion of a stirring and very beau-

tiful manifestation. A certain number of the members of the ORCHIDEENNE conceived the
idea of holding a special fete to celebrate the fiftieth monthly exhibition of the Society,
and in honour of one of the original founders, M. J. LINDEN, one of the honorary presidents,
and the secretary of the committee, M. L. LinpEn, Director of the Society L’ HoRTICULTURE
INTERNATIONALE.

A large number of amateurs and eminent botanists and horticulturists, members of
the ORCHIDGENNE, assembled on Sunday morning in the winter garden of the establishment;
among them, MM. GEORGES Warocous, Comte pE Boustes, D' Capart, W. THOMPSON,
the great English amateur; Raout Warocguk, F. KEGELJAN, M. Canuzac, O’BrIEN, the
eminent English Orchidist, A. COGNIAUX, DE LA DEVANSAYE, BouTeMy-BaRkOIs, HouZEAu
DE LEHAIE, A. VAN ImscuoorT, CH. VAN WAMBEEE, J. DU TRIEU DE TERDONCK, EM. RopbIGAs,
Fv. Pauwe ts, Cu. DE BosscHERE, MADOUX, G. Mireau, HuyBrecuts, A. De MEULENAERE,
A. Wincgz, H. Knicur, Director of the Royal Gardens at Laeken.

Two superb bouquets of Orchids were presented. to Messrs J. and Lucien LINDEN on
their arrival, also two large frames containing the photographs of all the subscribers
to this graceful memorial, to the number of 70, of whom many were not able to be at
Brussels. ‘Then M. F. KeGeryjay, in an eloquent address, explained the sentiments which
had inspired the organisers of this fete, sentiments of gratitude for the services rendered
to science and to the diffusion of a taste for Orchids, and sentiments of sympathetic solidarity
between all amateurs devoted to the same cause. M. J. LinpEN returned thanks in his
name and that of his son in a touching manner.

A delegation composed of the foremen and gardeners of the HorricuLTURE INTER-
NATIONALE then advanced and presented bouquets to Messrs J. and LuciEN LINDEN, to
whom they expressed their felicitations and sentiments of gratitude. M. Lucign LINDEN
thanked them, in a few appropriate words, and alluded to the cultural progress made by
these devoted servants.

The Jury then proceeded to pass in review the plants exhibited. These numbered 133,
but our space is unfortunately too limited to give more than a summary description. The
list of awards, which will be found below, includes the names of the most remarkable
among them.

M. G. WarocguE exhibited his famous Odontoglossum crispum leopardinum, very richly
spotted, and rather analogous in the colouring to O. Wilckeanum albens, but with more
numerous and more elegant brown spots; a superb Cochlioda Nétzliana, with very large
flowers of a good substance; Cypripedium Rothschildianum, with two spikes, each bearing
three flowers of enormous size; C. barbatum Crossii, a fine specimen loaded with flowers;
Odontoglossum Edwardti with two long, very dense spikes; Cattleya amethystoglossa, well
flowered, Trichopilia suavis, of a beautiful colour, etc.

ue Count Oe Bousies showed some beautiful Odontoglossums, amongst which a
magnificent O. crispwm, with flowers of a perfect shape, and bearing on each part a

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LYCASTE x IMSCHOOTIANA L. Linp. et con.
M. A. VAN IMSCHOOT’S LYCASTE

LYCASTE. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. III, p. 13.

Lycaste > Imschootiana, Pseudobulbis late triangulari-ovoideis, compressis, longitudinaliter obscure sulcatis ;
foliis late lanceolatis, inferne longe attenuatis conduplicatis ; scapo teretiusculo, gracili, flexuoso, sparse paucivagi-
nato; vaginis laxis, triangularibus, acutissimis; bractea ovato-lanceolata, acuta, ovario breviore; sepalis inferne erectis
deinde patulis, subplanis margine leviter involutis, anguste ovatis, basi intus longiuscule denseque villosis caeteris
glabris, dorsali obtuso vix apiculato, lateralibus paulo majoribus acutis subacuminatisque ; petalis erecto patulis, satis
concavis, ovato-ellipticis, acutis, inferne intus pilosulis, caeteris glabris, sepalo dorsali paulo brevioribus, labello petalis
satis, breviore, erecto, valde concavo, carnoso rigidoque, ambitu ovato, basi non unguiculato, lobis lateralibus
apice late rotundatis, lobo terminali reflexo ovato apice rotundato margine crispo intus tenuissime denseque papilloso,
disco ad basim extus profunde depresso intus gibboso ad medium intus sparse longeque piloso, callo inter lobis late-
ralibus crasso apice rotundato; columna longiuscula, subrecta, antice longiuscule denseque villosa, basi in pedem
brevem producta.

Lycaste X Imschootiana L. Linp. et Coan. in Fourn, des Orchid., 4me année, p. 328, fig. 72 (1894); Journ,
of Hortic., 21 déc. 1893, p. 549 et 557, fig. 80; Gard. Chron., 23 déc. 1893, p. 775; fig. 119; The Orchid Review,
II, 'p. 8 et 30; Rev. de l’Hortic. Belg., XX, p. 47-

he new hybrid we now figure is dedicated to M. Arrrep Van Imscnoor,
of Ghent, who raised it in his collection by fertilizing the Lycaste

Skinneri with the pollen of Maxillaria nigrescens.

Its pseudobulbs are ovoid, rather enlarged at the base, obscurely keeled,
greyish green with some silky reflections, 7 to 8 cm. thick. Considering the
plant now under examination, each pseudobulb bears three light green, soft,
plicate-nerved, rather wavy leaves, attaining 55 cm. in length and 14 cm. in
breath. The scape, 12 to 15 cm. long, is of a pale green, slender, flexuose,
cylindric; it bears usually two lax, membranaceous vaginae, brownish red,
very acute, 2'/, cm. long, with the edges soldered below to half their height;
a third bract-like vagina is split nearly to the base, and shorter than the
ovary. The sepals erect towards the base, are then spreading, nearly plane,
narrowly ovate, with rather long and dense hairs at the interior base, very pale
yellow with very numerous large, dark purple dots; the dorsal one, obtuse and
scarcely apiculate, is 5'/, cm. long and 3 cm. broad; the lateral ones, acute
and somewhat acuminate, are 6 cm. long and 32 mm. broad. The petals are
erect and somewhat spreading upwards, rather concave, ovate-elliptic, acute,
somewhat villose in front towards their base, pale yellow, with large dots of a
dark red rather rare at their upper half, but very numerous and nearly confluent
at their basal half, 5 cm. long, 2'/, cm. broad. The lip is erect, very concave,
rather fleshy and rigid, 4 cm. long, very dark purple, with small yellow spots in

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series at the upper part, and the front lobe citron yellow; the latter is somewhat
reflexed, ovate with rounded tip, as in the lateral lobes, and somewhat wavy-
crisped edges ; externally, the disk bears at its base a broad and deep depression.
The column, 2 cm. long, is nearly straight, lemon-yellow at its upper part,
passing into purple below, nearly black in front at the base; the whole front
part is very villose, especially near the foot, which is rather short. The opercule
of the anther is very convex, very finely papillose, unilocular, of a somewhat
yellowish white. The rather large pollinia are provided with a slender and
elongated pedicel, and bear all the other usual characters of Lycaste.

Some persons have showed themselves unwilling to admit the above paren-
tage of this hybrid and especially the influence of Maxillaria nigrescens, and
designated Lycaste Skinneri and L. cruenta as the probable parents. The plant
has undoubtedly maintained absolutely all the characters of the genus Lycaste, in
the vegetative organs as well as in its floral structure, and bears some resem~
blance to L. cruenta in more than one part. Is there one person, however,
who may boast to know at present all the mysteries of hybridization, and who
could say what surprises we are to encounter in the future?

In order to be more acquainted with the origin of the L. Imschootzana,
we asked M. Van Imscuoor himself for information, and he kindly wrote to
us the following : —

« About the Lycaste Imschootiana, I made but one hybridization of Lycaste
at the beginning of 1889, viz. L. Shinneri fertilized with the pollinia of Maxillaria
nigrescens. 1 can therefore positively assert that the M. nigrescens is the pollen-
parent, although there is scarcely one distinct character of this species in the
hybrid, but perhaps in the lip.

I obtained five or six plants of the seeds; the first flowered and the more
robust you have received; two or three of the others will probably flower
next year about at the same time, i. e. December-January, as they begin to push
a new growth. ”

So long, therefore, as we have no proof of the contrary, in other words,
so long as there exists no identical plant obtained from other 7
not allowed to call in question ne a categorical ee oe

In all cases, a fact is beyond doubt, viz., that the L. Imschootiana is a
plant of superior merit. All the horticultural periodicals have mentioned its
appearence, and several of them have given a figure of it. True it is that it
obtained but an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society of London,
but the OrcuipEENnE, of Brussels, awarded to it a First-class Diploma of Honour
unanimously and by acclamation.

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M. DALLEMAGNE’S CYPRIPEDIUM.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 31.
Cypripedium X Dallemagnei Horv., supra.

he new hybrid figured in the present plate was obtained from the
fertilisation of C. Spicerianum with the pollen of C. Lowianum.

We see that the hybrid is about intermediate between its parents,
having much of the elegance of C. Spicerianum, both in form and colour, but
in size somewhat approaching C. Lowianum.

The character which gives to C. x Dallemagnei its particular charm is the
graceful contrast produced in the centre of the flower, clear green spotted with
blackish purple, and the extremities of the petals and the dorsal sepal, in
which a rosy violet colour preponderates. The base of the petals and dorsal
sepal are covered with numerous very curious spots. The lower third of the
petals bear the same rosy violet spots as are seen in C. Lowianum, and they
are also somewhat revolute, as in that species. The upper half of the dorsal
sepal is white, set off with several large rosy purple veins. This organ has
distinctly the form of C. Spicerianum, but is of larger dimensions. Lastly the lip,
which is of average size and nearly cylindrical, is green, feebly tinted with
reddish brown in front, and paler behind.

C. Dallemagnei unanimously obtained a First-class Diploma of Honour at a
Meeting of the OrcuiDEENNE, of Brussels, in November 1893.

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very large, light reddish-brown spot ; Cypripedium Mastersianum, richly flowered ; a superb

Cattleya Trianae, having very large, splendidly coloured flowers, etes

From M. Canuzac came a well-flowered plant o
a good variety, having the front lobe of the lip of an exception

W. Tuompson Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (England),
of cut flowers, including : Dendrobium Phalaenopsis,
D. nobile albiflorum, D. nobile nobilius, D. nobile Amesianum, D. Wardianum, nearly pure
white and yellow, D. x Leeanum, D. x Ainsworthit,
Odontoglossum crispwm, an excellent variety.

M. A. Van ImscHoot showed two very fine Cattleya Trianae,
gigantic flowers, a Cattleya Lueddemanniana and a charming Cypripedium x Leeanum
maximum.

M. Mapovx sent a superb series of Odontoglossum crispum, Riickeri, luteo-purpureum,
Coradinei, triumphans, Rossii rubescens, and Cattleya Trianae, in excellent varieties; several

Cypripedium hybrids, very interesting, and C. Argus Moensti, C. X selligerum, C. x Harri-

' sianum superbum, C. x Dauthieri, C. barbaium majus, C. Xx oenanthum, etc.; Lycaste

Luciani, well flowered; Mormodes Rolfeanum rubrum, a richly coloured variety; Cattleya
Leopoldi and Laelia elegans var., also very interesting in colour.

Dt Capart exhibited several Odontoglossum crispwm in good varieties, of which one
was particularly remarkable, and another very richly flowered; O. Hallit and triumphans,
an Oncidium superbiens, very attractive, a Cattleya Trianae and a Dendrobium nobile, of
good colour.

M. Pauwets showed an Odontoglossum odoratum superbly flowered, and forming quite
a bush of flowers.

M. pe LaNnsBerGE sent a Phalaenopsis Schilleriana bearing a superb branched panicle
loaded with flowers.

M. Poursarx exhibited his Masdevallia x Pourbaixii, much improved since its first
flowering, a year ago. The flowers are larger, delicately coloured, and very attractive.

M. Cu. vAN WAMBEKE exhibited a series of beautiful Odontoglossum crispum and
Cattleya Trianae, and a Cypripedium x Ashburtoniae, a strong clump well flowered.

M. Grpez, of Sens, exhibited cut flowers of two hybrid Cypripedium, obtained by the
regretted M™ GiBez: C. villoswum x Lowi, and C. venustum x villosum, both well inter-
mediate between the parents.

M. DE LompagrDE exhibited a very well flowered plant of Selenipedium x grande.

M. Moens exhibited a beautiful tuft of Dendrochilum glumaceum validum, well flowered,
and Cypripedium x Stella, a very attractive hybrid.

M. A. Wincqz sent the following Orchids : Cattleya Trianae and amethystoglossa,
Odontoglossuim crispum, O. x Andersonianum, a good variety, and O. Lindleyanum.

Dt van CauweLagrt exhibited a Cattleya Trianae, of interesting colour.

We may further mention Odontoglossum polyxanthum and gloriosum, Zygopetalum
crinitum and Lycaste Skinneri, both well coloured, from M. Draps-Dom, also Coelogyne

cristata, Cypripedium > melanophthalnum and C. x politum, good varieties, from
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M. LUCIEN LINDEN’S LYCASTE.

LYCASTEH. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. III, p. 11.

Lycaste Luciani. Pseudobulbis ovoideis, compressis, longitudinaliter distincte sulcatis; foliis magnis, late lan-
ceolatis, inferne angustis conduplicatisque; scapo vix compresso, paulo flexuoso, sparse plurivaginato, vaginis laxis,
inferioribus acutis, superioribus acuminatis; bractea ovato-lanceolata, breviter acuminata, ovario longiore; sepalis
patentibus, subplanis, oblongis, obtusis et crasse apiculatis, basi intus dense araneoso pilosis, praecipue lateralibus,
caeteris glabris; petalis erectis apice leviter recurvis, satis concavis, obovato-oblongis, acutiusculis, sepalo dorsali
satis brevioribus; labello petalis paulo breviore, erecto, ambitu anguste obovato, breviter unguiculato, lobis latera-
libus apice late rotundatis et leviter undulatis intus leviter puberulis, lobo terminali reflexo anguste ovato, inferne
satis constricto, apice obtuso subrotundato intus dense villoso-tomentoso, extus brevissime denseque puberulo, disco
ad medium longitudinaliter cristato, callo inter lobis lateralibus crasso integro, apice late rotundato ; columna elongata,
suberecta, antice inferne vix puberula superne longe denseque villosa, basi in pedem brevem producta.

Lycaste Luciani VAN Imscu. et Coan, in Journ. des Orch., 4me année, p. 361 (1894); The Orchid Review,
II, p. 30 et 75.

L. Lucieniana Hort., Rev. de VHortic, Belg., XX, p. 47.

L. Lucianiana Hort. The Orchid Review, Il, p. 28.

his remarkable species is dedicated to M. Lucmn Linpen, director of
L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE. It has ovoid pseudobulbs, with several
distinct longitudinal furrows, 7 cm. broad, each bearing four leaves
on the plant which we have examined. The leaves are light green, flaccid,
7o cm. or more long, 13 to 14 cm. broad. The scape, about 3/4 inch long,
is of a pleasant green, rather slender, scarcely compressed, somewhat flexuose ;
it bears three to four lax vaginae, yellowish green, 3 to 4 cm. broad, soldered
below along their edges to about half their length; the upper one, forming a
bract, is more broad, and sensibly longer than the ovary. The sepals are oblong,
abruptly apiculate at their apex, nearly plane, but little concave at their basal
part, of a somewhat greenish white, strongly stained and dotted of purple inter-
nally; the upper one is erect, somewhat reflexed at the apex, 7 cm. long,
24 mm. broad, somewhat villose internally at the base; the lateral ones are
spreading, 7*/, cm. long, 2,4 cm. broad, densely covered internally at the base
with a white down. The sepals are erect, with the apex somewhat rolled outside,
rather concave, obovate-oblong, somewhat acute at their apex, 5 cm. long,
2 */, cm. broad, of a nice white, but stained and spotted with purple towards their
base. The lip is erect, yellowish white, with numerous purple dots, obovate in
shape, 4 */, cm. long and nearly 3 cm. broad at its middle; the lateral lobes are
rounded and somewhat wavy at their apical margin; the anterior lobe is reflexed,
of a dark purple, narrowly ovate, contracted at its base, nearly rounded at

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its apex, wholly covered on its superior side with a felt cloth of long curled hairs;
the claw is rather short and broad; the disk bears a thin longitudinal crest,
which extends from the base to over the middle, where it becomes confounded
with the large transverse callus, rounded at the upper margin. The column is
straight, somewhat incurvated at the apex only, semi-cylindrical, yellowish white
strongly stained with purple underneath, 2°*/, cm. long; its anterior face bears
towards the apex a long and dense villosity; the foot is scarcely 1 cm. long
The opercule of the anther is very convex, thinly papillose, yellow, with two
large purplish-brown lateral spots.

The curious villosity which covers the terminal lobe of the lip of Lycaste
Luciani can only be observed in the L. lasioglossa Rene. F., of which the present
work has given a plate some two years ago (vol. VII, pl. 316), and to which it
bears some considerable analogy; but it will be seen, on a glance at the two
plates, that the species are perfectly distinct. Besides the absolutely different
colouring of the flowers, we may observe that in the L. lasioglossa, the bract is
shorter than the ovary; the sepals are considerably broader, equally long, the
lateral ones regularly tapering and acute at their apex, the dorsal one only obtuse
and apiculate; the petals are rather shorter and broader, obtuse at their apex; the
lip is as long as the petals, with a longer and narrower claw, the lateral lobes
more projecting, and the front lobe broader, with the callus of the disk bidentate
at its apex; the column is about 1/2 cm. shorter, while the foot is one time longer
than in the new species; lastly, the pollinia are considerably smaller, rather
narrower, with the pedicel shorter and more slender.

The habitat of Lycaste Luciani is not known with absolute certainty; it is
however extremely probable that it comes from Guatemala, for it was included
in an importation of L. Skinneri, received three years ago by M. Atrrep VAN
Imscuoor, the well-known Orchidist of Ghent. It becomes therefore probable, as
M. Van Imscuoor thinks, that this plant could be a natural hybrid between L. lasio-
glossa and L. Skinneri, both Guatemalan Orchids.

M. Van Imscuoor’s plant flowered for the first time two years ago; last year,
it was divided into two pieces, and gave no flower; during the last winter, one
of the cuttings flowered in November, and the second in January. The first one
was exhibited, on December roth. last, at the meeting of the ORCHIDEENNE, of
Brussels, where it was awarded a First-class Diploma of Honour.

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THE ELEGANT LAELIO-CATTLEYA, WHITE VARIETY.

LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p. 25.
Laelio-Cattleya elegans. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. IV, p. 25.
Var. leucotata. Varietas floribus candidus.

aelio-Cattleya x elegans, or Laelia x elegans, as it is customary to call it
in collections, is extremely variable as regards colour. We could easily
enumerate twenty described varieties which show quite appreciable dif-
ferences. It is therefore the more curious that no pure white variety has previously
made its appearance.

There exists, however, a variety called alba, but the lip is deep amethyst-
purple, though the sepals and petals are white.

It is a curious fact that although the forms which are the most common in
cultivation have white segments, or are but slightly suffused with rose, the majo-
rity of the distinct varieties which have appeared are characterised by a more or
less dark tint, but none up to the present has shown a variation to pure white.

This blank has now been filled up, and we may congratulate ourselves, for
the form which we now figure is very beautiful, and white varieties are always
particularly choice.

The plant which served as the model for our plate flowered in 1893, among
importations of L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, whence it passed into the collec-
tion of R. H. Measures, Esq., one of the most eminent of English Orchidists.

It has the sepals and petals entirely white, also the lip, though the front lobe
of this organ bears a feeble trace of pale rose.

The Lindenia has already published remarkable varieties of this beautiful
natural hybrid, notably the rich L.-C. x elegans Broomeana, with flowers entirely
crimson-purple. The new form which we publish to-day admirably completes
this superb series, and is worthy to be compared with its predecessors.

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Nineteen exhibitors participated in this meeting. The Jury, composed of Messrs

W. THompson, President, DE LA DEVANSAYE, Secretary, BourEMyY-BARROIS, Comte DE

Bousies, CAHUZAC, JAMES O’BRIEN, G. WarocguE, F. KEGELJAN, Dt CaparT, EM. Kopicas

and HouzeAu DE LEHAIE, distributed the awards with more than usual severity.

The labours of the Jury being over, all the members present proceeded in carriages
to the Grand Hotel, where an elegant déjenner was served.

The repast, which was well organised, proceeded with perfect gaity and cordiality.
At desert M. le comte pE Bousirs proposed the first toast and alluded in eloquent terms
to the brilliant results obtained by the Society, and recounted the eminent services rendered
to eccnce and to horticulture by the introducer of so many magnificent species, M. J. LINDEN,
and the efforts of his son to imitate so noble an example, in having made the HORTICULTURE
INTERNATIONALE one of the leading establishments in the world.

M. J. Linpen, in a speech moved with emotion, thanked the comte DE Bousigs and
the other organisers of this affecting fete, and showed, in recalling his voyages of discovery,
that the love of plants, from a scientific and horticultural point of view, was an elevated
and civilising passion, only calculated to develop the noble sentiments of those devoted
to them and bring them together.

Cordial toasts were then proposed by Messrs LuciEN LINDEN, CAPART, CAHUZAC,
Mapboux, DE LA DEVANSAYE, O’BRIEN, DE BOSSCHERE and W. THompson to the heroes of
the fete, to their wives, and to the ORCHIDEENNE.

Lastly, M. G. Warocqué, President of the ORCHIDEENNE, in a toast filled with good
grace, alluded to the part played in the progress of Belgian culture by those modest but
devoted and active assistants, the “ chefs de culture.” The toast was associated with the
name of M. V. Van Mou, principal commercial manager of the HorTICULTURE INTER-
NATIONALE, who was present at the banquet.

The company separated with the most agreable impressions, and expressed the desire,
proposed by D* Capart, to see the fete renewed each year in the month of April.

On the evening of the same day all the employés of the Horticulture dined together to
celebrate the fiftieth meeting of the ORCHIDEENNE, and drank to the progress of Orchid
culture and to the health of Messrs J. and LuciEN LINDEN.

*

The following is the list of awards made by the jury on this occasion.

First-class Diploma of Honour

To Masdevallia x Pourbarxi, from M. PouRBAIX, unanimously.

First-class Certificates of Merit
To Cattleya Trianae, from M. A. VAN ImscHoot, by acclamation;

Cut flowers of Dendrobium and Odontoglossum, from M. W. Tuompson, by acclamation;
Cattleya Trianae, from Count DE BousigEs, unanimously;

Odontoglossum crispum leopardinum, from M. G. Warocouh, unanimously;

(To be continued on p. 16.)

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CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 31.
Cypripedium insigne WALLICH in LINDL. Collect. Bot., t. 32.

ew Orchids are more popular than Cypripedium insigne, and the favour
is well deserved, because it is a plant of the easiest possible culture,
| and so common as to be sold at a very cheap rate. It blooms during the
winter in profusion, and its flowers remain fresh for a long period. Its form, too,

is very graceful. The dorsal sepal is well displayed, and charmingly coloured,
apple green from the base to the centre, and covered with larger or smaller more
or less numerous brown spots. It is surrounded by a white border, sometimes
much broader at the apex, and on which the spots approach violet, instead of
brown, as at the base.

The species is extremely variable, and during recent years a considerable
number of new and very interesting forms have appeared.

Among the old varieties two only have a great reputation, C. imsigne Maulet
(or C. msigne albo-marginatum), and C. insigne Chantini (or C. insigne punctatum
violaceunt).

C. insigne Maulet appeared in 1855, in a small importation made by Messrs
HENpERSon. Its flowers were very remarkable, and the unique plant having been
divided a certain number of pieces found purchasers in 1869 at the price of £5 each.

It has the dorsal sepal broad, but a little reflexed near the base, with a broad
white border at the apex, the spots numerous and extending above the green
portion, and the lip broad and long, and ofa clear olive-green.

On taking a side view it is easy to distinguish C. insigne Chanlini, because
the dorsal sepal is incurved in front, while in other varieties this organ is nearly
straight.

C. insigne Chantini has the dorsal sepal more expanded, and _ therefore
appearing broader than the preceding, and distinctly rounded, green at the base,
and with a broad white band at the summit, descending at the sides nearly to the
base, and abundantly spotted with purple brown. The spots are often arranged
in four longitudinal lines, and become violet-purple when they extend into the
white region at the summit.

With the exception of these two distinct varieties of superior beauty, C. insigne
was until recent years considered to be a very constant species, but more recently
a new type has been discovered to which the name of C. insigne montanum has
been given; and which has proved extremely rich in variations, both in form and

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colour. Of this I have seen some time ago, at the HorticuLTuRE INTERNATIONALE,

a series of a dozen forms which have been picked out as the most remarkable
among the plants which have hitherto flowered out of a large importation. One of
these especially has the spots large and of a bright and remarkable colour; in
another, on the contrary, they are only just visible, as a shadow, and of a brownish
yellow colour.

I do not attempt here to describe all the other forms. The list would be
tedious, and the reader may easily imagine all the combinations of form (dorsal
sepal more or less broad, etc.) of colour (the white margin more or less broad,
spots more or less numerous, variable in size, disposed in lines or scattered, etc.)
and of grandeur. That which was painted and is here reproduced was one of
the most remarkable for size and beauty, and indicates what may be anticipated
of this celebrated species. Max Garnier.

(Continued from p. 14.)

To Cattleya Trianae, from M. Mavoux, unanimously ;
Odontoglossum crispum, from M. Mavoux, unanimously ;
Odontoglossum crispum, from Count DE Bousigs, wnanimously ;
Cymbidium Lowianum superbissimum, from M. CAHUZAC, unanimously ;
Odontoglossum triumphans, from Count DE BousiEs;
Odontoglossum crispum, from Dr? CAPART;

Odontoglossum x Molianum, from M. LINDEN;
Cypripedium Mastersianum, from Count DE Bousigs;
Cypripedium x Stella, from M. MoEns;

Odontoglossum Riickert, from M. Mapovux;

Cypripedium hybrid (venustum x villosum), from M. GIBEZ;
Odontoglossum cirrhosum superbum, from M. LINDEN;
Lycaste Luciani, from M. Mapoux;

Cattleya Trianae, from M. Mapovx.

Second-class Certificates of Merit

To Odontoglossum crispum, from M. CH. VAN WAMBEKE;

Cochlioda Notzlana, from M. G. Warocqué;

Odontoglossum x Coradinei, from M. Mapoux;

Mormodes Rolfeanum rubrum, from M. Mavoux;

Cattleya Trianae, from M. VAN WAMBEKE;

Cattleya Trianae, from M. Mapoux;

Odontoglossum crispum, from M. Mapoux.

First-class Cultural Certificates
To Cypripedium Rothschildianum, from M. Warocovs, unanimously ;
Odontoglossum gloriosum, from M. FL. PAUWELS:
Odontoglossum crispum, from D® Capart;

(To be continued on p. 18.)

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LAELIA x JUVENILIS stev.
THE GRACEFUL LAELIA.

LAELIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 41.
Laelia juvenilis, Hybrida inter Laelia Perrinii 9 et L. pumilam of artificiose producta.
Laelia juvenilis BLEU. Fourn. des Orchidées, 1, p. 230.

his is a charming hybrid to which has been given the dainty name of
Laelia x juvenilis, which it well deserves on account of its graceful

8 colouring. It is about intermediate between its two parents in the organs
of vegetation, but its flowers are much like those of L. Perrinii, and if one were
given the choice of these two species, it would be difficult to imagine a more
remarkable product. The sepals and petals are white, lightly tinted and veined
along the margin with very pale rosy lilac. The lip has the tube of nearly the same
colour, but the front lobe, which has much of the shape of L. Perrinii, only less
abrupt and more graceful, has a white disk and in front of this a large blotch of
deep rosy carmine.

Laelia Perrinii has already been utilised in another cross with L. crispa, the
product being L. x Pilcheriana, a beautiful hybrid remarkable for the contrast
between the colour of the sepals and petals, which are white or lightly tinted with
pale rose, and the lip, which is of a brilliant reddish purple. It was L. x Pilche-
viana, which, fertilised in its turn with L. cinnabarina, produced the beautiful
L. x flammea, which is remarkable for the combination of its orange-yellow
colour with purple.

With regard to L. pumila, it does not appear to have hitherto given rise to
artificial hybrids. This is no doubt explained by the small size of its flowers ;
nevertheless this species has qualities which compensate for the defect, in the
breadth and colour of its segments, and we shall be much surprised if it does not
produce some beautiful offspring in the not distant future.

L. X juvenilis is another of the hybrids raised by M. A. Bueu, of Paris, the
hybridist who has produced the majority of the continental hybrids. The readers
of the Lindenia have already been able to admire several very remarkable hybrids

due to his skilful initiative.
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To Odontoglossum Edwardii, from M. Warocquk;
Cypripedium barbatum Crossii, from M. WarocQus;
Phalaenopsis Schilleriana, from M. DE LANSBERGE;
Cypripedium Ashburtoniae, from M. VAN WAMBEKE ;
Odontoglossum pulchellum majus, from M. WAROCQUE;
Cattleya amethystoglossa, from M. WAROCQUE;
Cattleya Trianae, from Count DE BOUuSIES;
Dendrochilum glumaceum validum, from M. MOENS.

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Toast of M. J. Linden, at the banquet of 11" March.

Many persons having expressed the desire to see preserved the toast proposed by
M. J. Liven, at the banquet of r1th. March in honour of the fiftieth Meeting of the

ORCHIDEENNE, we think it well to give the text below.

GENTLEMEN,

Extempore speaking is not easy at my age. I have seen 77 years, ten of them spent
campaigning in the tropics, which count double.

In consideration of this age, you will permit me to be brief, and to talk about my early
relations with our favourites, the Orchids, which are assembled here in such large numbers.

But before going further, permit me to say to M. le comte DE BousiEs how much I am
touched and affected by his kind and flattering words about me, which you have just
heared. I thank you from my heart, and I pray you to accept this expression of my warmest
gratitude.

I also beg the honourable members of the organising commission of this sympathetic
and friendly manifestation, as well as all the honourable adherents, present and absent,
to accept my thanks for the great honour which they have done me, and also my son
Luctgn, in so graciously offering us their photographs, together with this brilliant déjeuner.
This high appreciation of services rendered, each in his sphere, to botany and horticulture,
also to amateurs of Orchids, is the most valuable and agreable recompense which we could
desire. The approbation of all the distinguished amateurs is more valuable for us than the
highest honorary distinctions.

I will tell you a few words about myself and how I became an explorer, thus realising
the desire of my dreams since childhoud. I was educated at the Faculté des Sciences of the
University of Brussels, of which I am now one of the last survivors of those who were
students in the first years of its foundation. In September, 1835, the Belgian Government
entrusted me with a scientific mission into south America, little known at that period, and
allotted me two colleagues, MM. Funck and GHIESBREGHT.

Our preparations were soon made, and by the end of December in the same year we
landed in Brazil, after an unpleasant voyage of three months, which would now be per-
formed in sixteen days. It was, however, only in the Cordilleras of the Venezuelan and
Columbian Andes that my Orchid discoveries attained their greatest importance.

(Lo be continued on p. 20.)

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM type. var. WALTONENSE nore.
THE CRISPED ODONTOGLOSSUM, WALTON GRANGE VARIETY.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p- 19.
Odontoglossum crispum, Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. IL, p- 51.
Var. Waltonense Hort., supra.

j he handsome variety which we figure in the annexed plate is not only
remarkable in colour, but is distinct in size and structure. Its flowers,

which are very well formed, have the petals very finely fringed along
the margins, covering the margin of the sepals, and of such large dimensions
as we have seldom seen. And what is still rarer, the substance is thick, and nearly
coriaceous, as we have never before observed it in Odontoglossum crispum.

The colour is superb, of a lilac-mauve reflected with white and bearing large
bright brown blotches on the sepals and lip.

The present variety bears the name of Walton Grange, Stone, Staffordshire,
the property of Wix1am Tuompson, Esq., who has established there his rich
collection of Orchids.

This collection is specially famed for its magnificent Odontoglossums, in-
cluding numerous very choice varieties.

We are particularly pleased to be able to name one of these plants in its
honour, and one which by its distinct and splendid character is well worthy to

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From the time of ALEXANDER VON Humpotpt, who only indicated a few species of
Orchids, up to my arrival in the Andes, the most brilliant representatives of the Cattleyas
and Odontoglossums, as well as many other species of great merit, were still undiscovered.
I had the good fortune to arrive first, but I was closely followed by Hartwec, travelling
for the Royal Horticultural Society of London. We met at Bogota, and it was during an
excursion that we took together that we discovered, near Pacho, Odontoglossum crispum,
which gave occasion to a trade for a value of millions during the last few years.

At the time of my journey a certain number of more or less interesting Orchids were
already in cultivation in Europe. They had been imported principally from the East Indies,
Brazil, and Mexico, and their introduction was due to chance, rather than to careful search.

After travelling in Brazil, I explored in succession Cuba, Mexico, the North of Guatemala,
Jamaica, Venezuela and Columbia. The best years of my youth were passed in solitudes and
virgin forests. In return for not being a Don Juan, whose name however I should bear in
spanish language, I remember carrying off large numbers of these children of the air, which
L encountered at all altitudes, up to the chilly regions near the eternal snow. They were not
at all shy, and were carried off without resistance, but once in my possession, difficulties
began. It was necessary to bring them down from the mountains to the port of embarcation
by roads which cannot be imagined by any who have not traversed them. At that time no
steamboat had yet crossed the ocean, and the poor plants had to endure the sea voyage at
the bottom of the hold of a rough sailing vessel, after having waited, sometimes during
more than a month, for a chance of carriage to a port near their destination. Packed like
herrings in a barrel, the heat and fermentation worked sad havoc, and but few of them
arrived alive.

‘To-day the rapid and frequent communication, together with fixed dates for the depar-
ture of the steamers, have led to the importation of Orchids in immense proportions.
The number of amateurs is following this progress, and our jubilee meeting, which we
celebrate to-day, furnishes a sufficient proof. Many little children of my ancient victims
figure at this meeting, and you come to weave their crowns for the fiftieth time, and this
makes me hope that you will pardon the indiscretions of my youthful days.

I cannot conclude without saying that my son Lucien has strongly seconded my
work, as you have seen, because long ago I abandoned the government, and only retain
the direction of the journeys of exploration, for which I preserve all my ancient ardour,
which will remain, I hope, for a long time to come.

It is more agreeable, and more to my taste, not to recognise the disagreements, inevi-
table at the present time, of commercial competition, for do we not contemplate the
conquests made by science in‘ the world of the unknown, and do we not see that the love
of plants is an elevating and civilising one, which only develops the nobler sentiments of
those which follow it, and draws them near together. What better occasion can we find
than our fete to-day for advancing that amiable confraternity which the taste for horti-
culture gives birth to among its adepts?
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CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING NUMBERS:

ist Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
> parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina , i
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium X Des-

-boisianum, Cypripedium X Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossim Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

2nd Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthes leucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium x Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

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Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum X excellens var, dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
& Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

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teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.

4t Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae var, tenebrosa, Cattleya X Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya < Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

5 Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya )< Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia XX Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Miltonia Warscewicezi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum

crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

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Part XXXIX. Aprit 1894.

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ICONOGRAPHY
OF ORCHIDS

CONDUCTED BY

J. Linpen, Lucien Linpen and Em. Ropiaas.

THE COLOURED PORTRAITS BY

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MAXILLARIA MIRABILIS coen.

THE ADMIRABLE MAXILLARIA.

MAXILLARIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., IV. p. 37-

Des eraly

Maxillaria mirabilis. P is parvis,

; foliis recurvis, lineari-oblongis, acutis, inferne

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longe attenuatis ; scapo erecto, gracili, vaginis majusculis subimbricatis acutissimis leviter inflatis, dorso valde carinatis,
basi leviter gibbosis vestito, foliis subdimidio breviore; bractea acuta, ovario aequilonga; sepalis carnosulis, acutis,
dorsali erecto, apice leviter recurvo, ovato-oblongo, dorso carinato, lateralibus paullo brevioribus inferne erectis, superne
reflexis, triangularibus, basi dilatatis; mento obtuse conico; petalis ovato-oblongis, acutissimis, sepalo dorsali satis
brevioribus; labello carnoso et rigido, sepalis lateralibus satis breviore, ambitu ovato, valde concavo, fere condupli-
cato, apice satis attenuato reflexo fere circinato, margine superiore satis crispato; disco superne brevissime denseque
tomentoso, callo carnoso oblongo-ligulato, superne incrassato, apice truncato, longiuscule denseque tomentoso; columna
brevi, crassa, dorso obscure angulata, basi in pedem longissimum producta.

Maxillaria mirabilis Coan. in L. Linn. Fourn. des Orchid., IV, p. 363 (1894); The Orchid Review, II, p. 75
et 92; Rev. de l’Hortic. Belg., XX, p. 70; L. Linp. Les Orchid. exot., p. 834.

f all the first-rank novelties introduced during the latest years by
Messrs Linpen, L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, the present
one is no doubt one of the most showy. It was therefore awarded a
First-class Diploma of Honour unanimously and by acclamation at a meeting of
L’OrcHIDEENNE, on February 11th. last.

We are not at present allowed to divulge its habitat, but it may be surmised
a priori that, like all its congeners, it comes from some part of tropical America.

It has small, broadly triangular-ovate pseudobulbs, compressed, rather
bi-convex, */, to 3/, inch high, each bearing two leaves at its apex. The leaves are
spreading-bent, linear-oblong, acute, lengthily narrowed below, about 12 inches
long, excluding the sheathing part, 1 °/,-2 inches broad, the scape is ascending,
slender, hardly compressed, 6-8 inches high, light green passing to blackish
purple near the nodes; it bears three to four sheathing scales, of a shining green,
very acute, somewhat swollen, strongly carinate at its back, somewhat prominent
at its base, with the margins connate at the base along a few lines, 1 */,-1 */, inches
long. The bract, rather less acute than the other scales, is as long as the ovary.
Sepals rather fleshy, acute, dark purple at the middle and the inferior part,
but paler at the base, bright yellow at the apex, with numerous lines of a brownish
purple, extending from the base nearly to the apex, and several large dark brown
spots all over the superior half; the upper one is ovate-oblong, slightly keeled at
the back, specially towards the apex, 1 */, inch long, */, inch broad, erect, except
at the tip, which is somewhat recurved; the lateral ones, somewhat erect at first,
then regularly curved outwards, are triangular, 1 */, inch long, */, of an inch

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broad at the base. The petals, erect, excepting the tip which is spreading or
reflexed, are somewhat fleshy, ovate-oblong, very acute, 1 inch long, */, of an
inch broad, of a bright orange-yellow at their upper half, passing to very pale
yellow below, with the same streaks as the sepals on the lower two thirds, and
the same spots, especially on the margin, at the upper half. The lip, very fleshy
and rigid, is ovate in its whole, very concave, nearly conduplicate, strongly
narrowed, reflexed and rather distorted at the apex, very hairy at the upper
margins, with the disk very shortly hairy at its upper part, 1 inch long; the
median callus, extending from the base to somewhat above the middle, is broad,
very tomentose, and terminates above in a truncate enlargement; it is wholly
bright orange-yellow, with bright purple dots, very minute on the inferior part of
the lateral lobes, larger at their apex and on the margin of the front lobe.
The column, creamy white, is very fleshy, somewhat arched in front, obscurely
angular at the back, with the edges of the clinandrium very minutely papillose ;
it is scarcely */, of an inch long, but its foot is about twice as long.

The closest allied species seems to be the M. fucata Reus. r., probably a
Brazilian species, which has a very different and far less rich colouring. Besides
this, the latter has ovate-oblong pseudobulbs, several times longer; its leaves are
lanceolate; the dorsal sepal is strongly keeled; the lateral sepals are twice as
large, broadly ovate, obtuse; the petals are far smaller, oblong and far less
acute ; the lip differs also by several points.

It may be well to mention, in course, the extreme confusion which predo-
minates in the genus Mavillaria ; its species, which in number exceed notably one
hundred, have been nearly all described separately and without any systematical
coordination; it is nearly impossible therefore to use these descriptions for a
scientific determination of the plants included. An accurate revision of the genus
would be a very useful work.

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ZYGOPETALUM INTERMEDIUM opp. var. PERUVIANUM zoxre.

THE INTERMEDIATE ZYGOPETALUM, PERUVIAN VARIETY.

ZYGOPETALUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 27.

Zygopetalum intermedium. Pseudobulbi globi idei. Folia oblongo-l 1 acuta, Scapus erectus pluri-

florus. Bracteae triangulo-ovatae, acutae, concavae. Flores speciosi. Sepala elliptico-oblonga, acuta. Petala sepalis

similia. Labellum basi angustum, dein subito dilatatum, cordato-reniforme, emarginatum, venis venulisque plus minus

velutinis; callus tumidus, bilobus, sulcatus, praesertim in sulco mediano velutino. Columna clavata.

Zygopetalum intermedium Lopp. Orch. (1842), p. 19 (nomen). — LinpL. Bot. Reg., XXX, Misc., p. 9. —
Reichenbachia, ser. I, vol. 1, p. 37, t. 15.

Eulophia Mackaiana LinDL. in Bot, Reg., t. 1433.

Zygopetalum Mackayi Paxt. Mag. Bot., Ill, p. 97, cum ic. — Hartina Parad. Vindeb., p. 20, t. 34. —
Reus. F. in WAP. Ann., VI, p. 661, partim.

Zygopetalum velutinum Hor‘MGG Bot. Zeit., 1843, p. 835.

Zygopetalum Mackayi var. intermedium Verrcu Man. Orch., IX, p. 57.

Var, peruvianum Roire, floribus paullo minoribus.

he history of this handsome species is very much confused, as the
plant is variously confounded in the books with its two allies, Z. Mackayi
Hoox. and Z. crinitum Lopp. It was originally figured in the Botanical
Register for 1831, under the name of Eulophia Mackaiana, D' Linpuey then
supposing it be synonymous with Z. Mackayi Hoox., and in reality a species
of Eulophia. He remarks — “ This most lovely species is, of all the Orchideous
tribe, one of the most deserving cultivation; not only because of the size and rich
colours of its flowers, but also because it succeeds well with ordinary care, and
blossoms frequently. We have not seen it thriving better than in the Garden

of the Horticultural Society, where it is grown in pots, filled with moss or

rotten wood, and hung by wires from the rafters of the stove. ” It flowered

for the first time in 1828. The introducer is not stated.

Some time afterwards Messrs Loppices, of Hackney, obtained plants, to
which they gave the name of Z. intermedium, presumably in allusion to its
supposed relationship to Z. Mackay: Hoox. and Z. crimitum Lopp. The name
was adopted by Linpiey, who failed to recognise its identity with his Eulophia
Mackaiana, though he called it “ perhaps the finest of the genus. ”

Paxton, and later Harrincer, also figured the plant under the erronous
name of Z. Mackayi. ReicHENBACH, in WaALPER’s Annales, united the two, but
afterwards in the Reichenbachia, cleared up the confusion, though the old errors
have since been reproduced on more than one occasion, which is not to be
wondered at, considering how much they have been confused. On the other
hand the plant figured at t. 216 of this work as Z. intermedium is Z. crinitum

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Lopp. The three species are quite distinct. Z. Mackayi has rather narrow leaves
and a smaller flower with nearly smooth lip. The other two have broader leaves
and larger flowers, Z. crimtum having the lip gradually narrowed towards the
base and hirsute, while in Z. intermedium it is suddenly dilated into a broad
front lobe, and is much less hairy. All three are natives of Brazil, and it is
rather curious that an allied form should occur in Peru and Bolivia, which has
recently been introduced into cultivation. It has the general character of Z. imter-
medium, but a rather smaller flower, and may bear the name of variety peruvianum.
It is figured in the annexed plate, from plants introduced by Messrs Linen,
L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, Brussels. It has also appeared in one or two
other collections. It is a fairly well-marked geographical form, and was originally
collected by MaTtrHEws many years ago, though, as far as I can learn, it has only

recently appeared in cultivation.
R. A. Ro.re.

THE FIFTY-FIRST MEETING OF ‘ L’ORCHIDEENNE ”

Although less remarkable than the three preceding assemblages, the 51‘t meeting was a
very interesting one, and brought together a selection of brilliant Odontoglossums and various
specimens of remarkable culture. Beautiful Orchids were exhibited to the number of 76.

We may cite the following as among the most admired : —

Oncidium superbiens var. Enaoi, having a panicle many feet in length; Epidendrum
species, well flowered; a pretty variety of Cattleya Trianae and Miltonia vexillaria, from
M. A. VAN IMSCHOOT;

Cattleya Schilleriana, bearing a group of five large and delicately coloured flowers,
from M. le Comte DE BousIEs;

A beautiful collection of Odontoglossum varieties, a specimen of Chysis bractescens,
and two pretty Cypripedium hybrids, from M. LINDEN;

A pretty Odontoglossum, from M. le Dt Capart ;

Two beautiful Odontoglossums, from M. ALBERT MADOoUx;

A magnificent specimen of Dendrobium thyrsiflorwum, with rich inflorescence ; Lycaste
Skinneri alba, Laelia purpurata, a superb inflorescence of Odontoglossum hastilabiwm and
Cattleya Trianae, from M. Mapovx;

Several Dendrobiums superbly flowered, from M. DE LoMBAERDE, also two charming
varieties of Coelogyne cristata and Lycaste Skinnert ;

A splendid Odontoglossum sceptrum, with brilliant colour, much admired, from
M. CAHUZAC;

Some superb Odontoglossum varieties from M. DE LANSBERGE ;

Odontoglossum crispum var. maculatum, from M. le D' VAN CAUWELAERT;

A beautiful plant of Phaius grandifolius, bearing four flower spikes, from M. CHAUMONT;

Two brilliant hybrid Cattleyas obtained and exhibited by M. A. BLeu, called
Cattleya x Parthenia gratissima and Cattleya x amethystino-superba splendens ;

An admirable variety of Odontoglossum Pescatorei, spotted with large purple blotches
on all the segments, from M. MirEav.

All the plants were much admired by the numerous visitors which thronged the Winter
Garden of the HorticuULTURE INTERNATIONALE during the two days of the Exhibition.

(To be continued on p. 26.)

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DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM wary. var. LINDENIAE uorr.

M* WARD'S DENDROBIUM, MADAME LINDEN’S VARIETY.

DENDROBIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 37.

Dendrobium Wardianum. Vide Lindenia, vol. V, p. 69, t. 225.

Var, Lindeniae, Varietas floribus omnino candidis, praeter discum labelli aurantiaco-flavidum.

Var, Lindeniae Hort. Fournal des Orchidées, vol. V, p. 8.

The history of Dendrobium Wardianum, one of the most beautiful and popular species of this remarkable
genus, has already been traced in the fifth volume of the Lindenia (t. 225).

his rich species has been introduced in quantity for many years, in
order to supply the wants of amateurs and those who cultivate it
on a large scale for cut flowers. It is interesting to note that hitherto
it has shown very few variations. Some forms are a little larger or smaller
than the type, or a little darker or lighter in colour, though with regard to
colour the differences observed have been very slight. The only very distinct

variety known was described by ReicHensacn, in 1876, under the name of
D. Wardianum candidulum. Its peculiarity consists in its having the sepals and
petals entirely white, and the two purple-brown spots at the base of the lip
much smaller than in the type.

The variety Lindeniae, which we figure in the annexed plate, is still more
distinct and remarkable, because it is a true albinos of the species. It has flowers
entirely white except that the orange-yellow blotch on the disc remains, as in the
case of albinos of Cattleya Trianae, C. Eldorado, C. labiata, and others.

We may also announce that shortly after the appearence of this superb
variety, a Belgian amateur, M. Mapoux, exhibited another very interesting one,
which fairly completes the series. This form, which was exhibited at a meeting
of the OrcHIpEENNE, has the sepals and petals white, and the two spots at
the base of the lip of a very curious pale colour.

The variety Lindeniae made its appearence at the meeting of the ORCHIDEENNE
in February 11th. 1894, when it was unanimously awarded a First-class Diploma
of Honour. It has large and well developed flowers, and will not fail to be
highly appreciated, as are all white varieties of typically coloured species.

It is dedicated to Madame LINDEN. ont

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The Jury, composed of MM. le comte DE Bousies, president, CH. DE BOSSCHERE,
secretary, F. KeceLjAN, Cu. WAN WAMBEKE, A. Van ImscHoot, EM. Ropicas,
A. Huyprecuts and Cu. Vassgur, made the following awards : —

First-class Diplomas of Honour

To Cattleya x Parthenia gratissima, from M. A. BLEU, unanimously ;
Cattleya x amethystino-superba splendens, from M. A. BLEU;
Cymbidium eburneum var., from M. LINDEN.

First-class Certificates of Merit

To Odontoglossum crispum var., from M. ALBERT Mapoux, unanimously ;
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var., from M. G. MITEAU, unanimously ;
Lycaste Skinneri alba, from M. MADoux;

Cattleya Schilleriana, from M. le comte DE BousIEs ;
Masdevallia Roezli superba, from M. LINDEN;
Odontoglossum crispum var., from M. LINDEN ;
Miltonia vexillaria, from M. VAN IMSCHOOT ;
Odontoglossum Cervantesi lilacinum, from M. DE LANSBERGE ;
Phaius grandifolius, from M. CHAUMONT ;

Cattleya Trianae, from M. VAN ImMScHOOT ;
Cypripedium Spicero-Lowianum, from M. LINDEN ;
Cypripedium hybride, from M. LINDEN ; é
Odontoglossum sceptrum Lindent, from M. CAHUzAC;
Odontoglossum citrosmum album, from M. LINDEN.

First-class Cultural Certificates

To Chysis bractescens, from M. LINDEN, unanimously;
Oncidium superbiens Enaoi, from M. Van ImscHoor, unanimously;
Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, from M. Mapoux, unanimously ;
Epidendrum species, from M. VAN Imscuoor.

TOAST OF M. COMTE DE BOUSIES AT THE BANQUET
OF II® MARCH.

M. le comte DE Boustss proposed the first toast in the following terms :

GENTLEMEN,

A In SANS Ueto the honour to speak here in your name you have confided to me a very
elicate mission, because I do not possess the eloquence necessary to discharge it properly.

“It 1s, nN a 1 at I do no f ra Oo nent hesitate
however so honorable a d greeab ea mission th
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T proceed therefore, in the name of the jury of the ORcHIDSENNE, to offer to Messrs

(To be continued on p. 28.)

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM tint. var. DALLEMAGNEAE +. LIND.

ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM, Mrs. DALLEMAGNE'S VARIETY.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. Ig.
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., II, p. 51.
Var. Dallemagneae L. Linn. Fourn. des Orch., IV, p. 361.

he variety we now figure flowered for the first time at the beginning
of the present year in the fine collection of M. DaLLemaGne, and is of
a beautiful and distinct character. Its flowers bear large and regular
spots, of a bright and remarkably contrasted colour. The spots on the petals
are of a bright, somewhat carmine red, white those on the sepals are chestnut
brown. All these blotches are large, of an irregular form, and are grouped on the
centre of each segment. The lip bears a large yellow blotch, extending to two
thirds of its length, and enhanced with several small spots of a bright red.

It is with a particular pleasure that I have dedicated this beautiful variety to
Mrs. DaLtemacne, wife of the well-known orchidist, possessor of several superb
Orchids which have already been figured in the present work.

The collection which M. Datiemacne has founded at Rambouillet is not
only cultivated on a superior way, it is also remarkably rich and contains a
number of choice varieties and rare species which could scarcely be found in any
other collection of the same region around Paris.

Its great value, moreover, is amply attested by numerous premiums obtained
a few years since at several Exhibitions, especially at the meetings of the
OxcuipEEnne, of Brussels, and more recently at the great Exhibition of the
Société Nationale d’Horticulture de France, at Paris, where M. DALLEMAGNE sent
a magnificent lot of 250 Orchids in flower, for which he was awarded the Grand
Prix d’honneur, offered by the President of the French Republic.

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LINDEN the homage of our sentiments of gratitude and sympathy. In saying ‘ gratitude

I but use the correct word. :
Indeed, do we not owe to them those charming moments which each day we pass in

our houses, in quest of a new growth, or in beholding the first appearance of a scape
pushing out from the stem, or in admiring the flowering of our plants ?

To whom are we indebted for these monthly reunions, so agreeable and always so
amicable ?

For what is known to science of this admirabl
artists, of these quaint flowers with the distinguished forms they bear?

To whom, lastly, do our fellow citizens owe these superb Orchids with which they
ornament their dwellings, and with which they enhance the brilliancy of their fetes ?

Well, Gentlemen, I do not hesitate to speak, and you will approve it, 1am certain;
that much of these things we owe to Messrs LINDEN. (Afplause.)

You know what were the ancient Orchids : A few insignificant Oncidiums with dull
colours, two or three ordinary Cypripediums. All these were relegated to the most obscure
spots in the houses of botanic gardens, and what houses? Ought they not rather to have
been called crematory ovens, where the plants were half dead on arriving in their places,
and from whence they usually departed some months after, so well dried as to be able to
enter immediately and without preparation into the herbarium of the botanist.

This was pretty nearly the situation when M. LINDEN, pere, commenced his grand
voyages of exploration. It was not one of the easiest of tasks. At first the success was
problematical ; afterwards these distant parts which it was intended to explore, were half
uncivilized and defended by a hydra with a hundred heads, of which the first represented
venemous serpents, the second the yellow fever, another the vomito negro, and others of
the kind.

Nothing deterred M. Linpen. He braved the journeys through countries with no
beaten track; he braved the heat of tropical valleys, the cold of the snows of the Cordillera,
and brought back to us the magnificent golden fleece represented by our Cattleyas, our
Odontoglossums, and other marvels which we admire to-day.

But this was only the first part of M. Linpen’s task. He also lived to popularise the
plants with which he had endowed us. It is this part which he has now handed over to
his son, M. Lucten LINDEN.

Thanks to the labours and intelligence of these Gentlemen, they succeeded in wresting
from nature secrets of the life of the most brilliant representatives of the vegetable kingdom,
and soon they filled the houses of their beautiful horticultural establishment with the verdure
and the flowers, and gave them the aspect of our meadows and fields in the beautiful days
of spring. Afterwards the plants discovered by M. LINDEN arrived in multitudes and were
diffused throughout Europe, with the secret of their culture generously given to the four
winds of publicity.

In order to give a complete idea of the progress realised, we may recall the superb
establishment in which we met this morning, and which is so admirably directed by
M. Lucten LinDEN. On entering we find first the beautiful Lindenia, where our beloved
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luxuriant inflorescence. Lastly, we admire the immense importations, received to-day from

foreign parts, to-morrow to be put into cultivation, and soon reaching their consummation
at a price accessible to all.

e family of exotic Orchids, or to our

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING NUMBERS:

ist Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
X parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina ,
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium % Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium x Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae.

2nd Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthesleucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium x Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

gid Vo

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum X excellens var. dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

lume

teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum,

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae var. tenebrosa, Cattleya x Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya >< Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium x Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
graminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

5% Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia < Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum

crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

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Part XL-XLI. May-June 1894.

LINDEN

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P Cattleya Aclandiae Lindl. var. maxima Hort. . 29 | Cypripedium x Gibezianum iby iby GG 37
Cymbidium eburneum Lind. . . . . . . 31 | Cattleya Trianae Lind. et Rchb. f. var. Ca-
Trichopilia suavis Lindl. bo 33 partiana L. Lind. . . Dae oe. Be ay!)
Odontoglossum ateahesnn Lindl. var. aca Masdevallia Davisii Rchb. i ito Ao Ale
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PL. CCCCXXI.

CATTLEYA ACLANDIAE uo. var. MAXIMA norv.
LADY ACLAND'S CATTLEYA, THE LARGEST VARIETY.

CATTLHYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, Dia7s
Cattleya Aclandiae. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. IV, p. 23.
Var. tigrina Hort. Flores majores, maculis magnis et tenebrosis.

attleya Aclandiae was figured at t. 346 of this work and the variety
salmonea at t. 399; a second variety forms the subject of the present
plate, namely var. maxima, which also appeared out of the same impor-
tation, received some time ago by Messrs Linpen, L’Horticutrure INTERNATIO-
NALE, Brussels. The flowers of the present one are of exceptional size and the
markings large and very dark, thus forming a strong contrast with the light
greenish-yellow ground. It may be considered as the finest form of the species,
to which it conforms in other respects.

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by fantastical conquerors? Time has covered them with dust and their memory is sullied
by the memories of crimes against right, the liberties of peoples, and by the images of
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awarded to military glory, it will at least have the advantage of recalling works durable
and pacific. In a century, in two and more centuries, the beautiful Orchids with which the
LINDEN’s have endowed us will still have the blessings of our descendants, and no repulsive
or painful thought will ever attach to their marvellous lustre. (Applause.)

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that is, the glow of sympathy and the recollections with which we are all about to lift our
glasses in your honour. And when I say this, I do not speak for those alone who are
united round: this table, I speak also for those innumerable Orchidists which are found
everywhere, and who appear to me at the present moment to extend and mingle with
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Cattleya Rex is certainly a very free-flowering Orchid, and blooming at
this season, is valuable in many ways. We possess six plants with thirty flowers;
one is already crossed with Laelia Schilleriana. It is, moreover, a free grower
and a first-class Cattleya.

Extract from The Gardeners’ Chronicle, H. Knicut, Laeken.

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CYMBIDIUM EBURNEUM uunpt.
THE IVORY-WHITE CYMBIDIUM.

CYMBIDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. VI, fy HS}

Cymbidium eburneum. Folia disticha, anguste elongato-linearia, rigida, apice bifida, lobis acutis. Scapus foliis
brevior, 1-2 florus, squamis elongatis acuminatis imbricatis tectis, Bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, acutae, parvae. Flores
speciosi. Sepala oblonga v. lanceolato-oblonga, apiculata, carinata. Petala lineari-oblonga, acuta. Labellum recurvum,
trilobum ; lobo medio late ovato-rotundato subobtuso undulato ; lateralibus rotundatis basi attenuatis ; disco velutino;
lamellae in unam mediam incrassatam carnosam pubescentem apice tumidam confluentes.

Cymbidium eburneum LINDL. Bot. Reg., XXXIII, t. 67. — Id. in Fourn. Linn, Soc., Il, p. 28. — Paxt. Mag.
Bot., XV, pp. 145, 146, cum ic et xyl. — Bot. Mag., t. 5126. — Warn. Sel. Orch., I, t. 27. — JENN. Orch., t. 16.
— Gartenflora, XXIX, p. 155, cum xyl. — Gard. Chron., 1882, i, p- 496, 497, fig. 78. — Id., 1884, ii, Pp- 77, fig. 17.
— Hook, F. Fl. Brit, Ind., V1, p. 11. — VeitcH Man. Orch., IX, pp. 14, 15, cum xyl. — Wien. Ill. Gart. Zeit.,
1887, pp. 7, 8, fig. 3-4. — Orchidophile, 1882, p. 296, 297, cum xyl. — Bull, Soc. Tosc. Ort., 1890, p. 264, t. 11.
— Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, X, t. 467.

Cymbidium syringodorum GriFF. Notulae, Ill, p. 338.

his beautiful and deservedly popular Orchid was originally figured and
| described by Linprey in the Botanical Register, from a specimen which
flowered with Messrs Loppiczs, of Hackney, in 1847, and which they
had received from the East Indies, probably from the Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Four years later, the Posthumous Papers of the late Wiu1am GrirrirH were
published, where we find this species under the name of C. syringodorum, with
the statement that it was discovered in November 1835, at Myrung, in the
Khasia Hills, where it grows at an altitude of about 5000-6000 feet above
sea-level.

For many years it remained rare in cultivation, but at length extensive
importations were made and now the species is common and deservedly popular,
as its beautiful and fragrant flowers are produced early in the year, and last a
long time in perfection.

It is a plant of the easiest possible culture, and succeeds well in a cool
shaded part of the intermediate house, in a compost composed of fibrous loam
and peat, with a little coarse sand it keep it open. The pots should be rather
large, as its large fleshy roots require some space to work in. They should be
well drained, and the plants should be placed below the rim, so that the water
will not run off the surface. As regards watering, they may be treated like an

ordinary stove plant.
Cymbidium eburneum has been utilised by the hybridist on several occasions,

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and two hybrids have already flowered, while other seedlings are in existence.

Those which have already flowered are C. X eburneo-Lowianum (C. Lowia-
num @ x C. eburneum o*), and C. x Winmanum (C. giganteum? x C. eburneum o),
both being handsome free-growing plants, combining the characters of their

respective parents.
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TRICHOPILIA SUAVIS uot.

THE SWEET TRICHOPILIA.

TRICHOPILIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. III, Pp. 43.

Trichopilia suavis, Pseudobulbi oblongi v. rotundato-oblongi, compressi, monophylli. Folia late oblonga, sub-
acuta, coriacea, subsessilia. Scapi breves, horizontales y. penduli, 1-5 flori. Bracteae ovatae, subobtusae, Sepala sub-
patentia lineari-lanceolata, subacuta, undulata, carinata, Petala sepalis similia, paullo latiora. Labellum obscure trilobum,
lobo intermedio transverse oblongo emarginato crenulato-undulato, 1 libus rotundatis crenulato-undulatis, disco laevi.

Columna brevis, clinandrio lobulato tenuissime fimbriato.

Trichopilia suavis, LuNDL. in Pax. Fl. Gard., I, pp. 44, 53, t. 11. — Bot. Mag., t. 4054. — FI. des Serres,
t. 761. — Lem. Fard. Fleur., Ill, t. 277. — Revue Hort., 1859, pp. 220-222, fig. 56, 57. — Rou. F. Xen. Orch.,
II, p. 103. — Warn. Sel. Orch., Ill, t. 8. — Belg. Hort., XXIV, p. 89, t. 4 (var. Lamarchae). — Puypt Orch.,
P- 327, t. 44 (var. Lamarchae), — VeitcH Man. Orch., IX, pp. 184, 185, cum xyl. — Revue Hort., 1887, pp. 453,
434, fig. or.

Var. alba, T. Moore in Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, I, t. 14. — Lindenia, I, t. 1. — Reichenbachia, ser. 1%
I, p. 69; t. 31.

his beautiful Central American species, the third known in the genus,
appeared in 1850, in the collection of R. S. Hotrorp, Esq., at Weston-
birt, and about the same time in the collections of Mrs Lawrence, at

Ealing, and of Messrs Loppiczs, at Hackney. The flowers were described as
having the most delicate odour of hawthorn. Two years later it was figured in the
Botanical Magazine, from a plant which flowered in the nursery of Mssrs LucomBe
Pince and C°.

Its habitat was rather vaguely recorded as Central America until 1874, when
E. Morren gave the following particulars in the Belgique horticole : —

“This charming flower was discovered in 1848, by Warscewicz, in Costa Rica,
on the Cordillera at an altitude of 5000-9000 feet. The finest specimens were met
with on the volcano of Chiriqui, at an altitude of 8000 feet, where the thermo-
meter ranges from 50° to 60° F.; some of the plants measureing two feet in
circumference, and bearing from 40 to 80 flowers at a time. Wanrscewicz sent
the plants to M" Skinner, of London, remarking they grew on the trunks of oaks,
species of Trichilia, and on Cupania glabra, at from 20 to 40 feet above the
ground, but never lower down, and when the trees fall through age or any other
circumstance, the Trichopilias soon languish and die. At Chiriqui, at this altitude,
there is a dry season lasting from November till April, when there is neither rain
nor dew, and the wind is often very violent, but throughout the remainder of the
year both rains and dews are copious and frequent. ”

It varies somewhat in the amount of spotting on the lip, and also in the

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depth of colour, the most distinct form being the beautiful variety alba, which,
like many other albinos, is very rare.

Trichopilia suavis may be grown in pots or in shallow hanging pans, the
latter being preferable because it likes plenty of light and air. It succeeds well
in the ordinary mixture of peat and sphagnum, with plenty of drainage. It
succeeds well either in the intermediate or the Mexican house. Great care should
be taken in watering, as anything like a sodden condition of the compost is fatal
to their well-doing. If well grown, it is a very handsome plant and the fragrance
and number of the flowers render it additionally attractive.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CIRRHOSUM ume. var. SUPERBUM sorr.

THE TENDRILLED ODONTOGLOSSUM, SUPERB VARIETY.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 19.

Odontoglossum cirrhosum, Pseudobulbi oblongo-lanceolati, compressi, ancipites, ecostati. Folia lineari-lanceolata,
acuta, scapi folia superantes, paniculati, multiflori. Bracteae triangulo-lanceolatae, acutae. Sepala lanceolata, cirroso-
acuminata, undulata, Petala sepalis similia, majora. Labellum unguiculatum, trilobum, lobis lateralibus brevibus rotun-

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apice recurvo, disco bicornuto cornubus incurvis.
Columna clavata, alis cirrosis.

Odontoglossum cirrhosum LINDL. Gen. and Sp. Orch. Pp. 211. — LINDL, Fol. Orch. Odont., p. 3. — RCHB. F.
in Wacp. Ann., VI, p. 827. — Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1876, i, pp. 501, 503, fig. 91, 92; 1878, i, p. 181, fig. 33.
— Id., 1886, i, p. 12, fig. 3. — Bot. Mag., t. 6317. — Ill. Hort., XXV, p. 9, t. 301. — Fl, Mag., n. s., 1876, t. 222.
— Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, IV, t. 151. — VetrcH Man. Orch., I, p. 17, cum xyl. — Orchidophile, 1883,
pp. 736, 737, cum xyl. — Gartenflora, XLI, P- 594, t. 1383. — Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort., 1890, p. 216, t. 9.

he elegant Odontoglossum cirrhosum was described by D* Linptey as
| long ago as 1833, when only four other species were known, yet it was
y not introduced to cultivation until some forty years later. The original
specimen was one collected by Colonel Hatz in the valley of Mindo, in Guayaquil,
at about 6000 feet altitude, and sent to Sir Witt1am Hooker. It was not until 1876
that it flowered for the first time in cultivation, and its introduction was due to
the brothers Ktazocn, nephews of the famous collector Rozzz, who sent plants
to Mr W. Butt, of Chelsea. It was exhibited for the first time at a meeting of
the Royal Horticultural Society on April 5 th., 1876, by Spencer Brunton, Esq.,
of Beckenham, and was unanimously awarded a First-class Certificate. About the
same time it also flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.; soon
afterwards it became comparitively common in collections, and has ever since
been highly esteemed on account of its graceful form and pleasing colours, and
the ease with which it can be grown.

It is perhaps most allied to C. naeviwm LinbL., a beautiful species from the
Santa Martha district, but is markedly different in the shape of the lip and length
of the sepals and petals.

It is found on the Western Cordillera of the Ecuadorean Andes between the
latitudes of 2°15 N. and 4° S. In certain localities it grows in company with
O. Halli, and it is from such spots that the beautiful natural hybrid O. x elegans
comes, being evidently derived from the intercrossing of these two species by
insect agency.

Some variation has been observed, both in the size of the flowers and the
number, size and colour of the spots, and two varieties have received distinctive

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names. The variety Klabochorum is a large form more heavily spotted with
chestnut-brown than the type, while the one called Hrubyanum is nearly white,
having very few traces of spots on the segments.

The specific name was given in allusion to the slender tendril-like column
wings, and its correct spelling has been the subject of some discussion. LINDLEY

originally spelt it “ cirrhosum ”, to which exception has been taken on the ground

that there is no “ h ” in the original Greek, though others argue that in the
latinised form the addition of the “ h ” is necessary. Perhaps the best plan under
the circumstances is to follow the original spelling, leaving the combatants to
fight the matter out.

As regards culture there is really nothing to say except that it succeeds
admirably under the cool treatment given to most other members of the genus.

The variety superbum, here figured, is a superior form, which has flowered
each spring, since three years, in the houses of L’HorticuLTuRE INTERNATIONALE,

at Brussels.
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MADAME E. GIBEZ’S CYPRIPEDIUM.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 31.

Cypripedium X Gibezianum. Novum hybridum e Cypripediis villoso et venusto artificiose productum.
Cypripedium X Gibezianum L. LIND., supra.

| he name which this hybrid bears has already been given to several
valuable plants, and is well known to all Orchidists. It is that of a
noble lady of high qualities and inexhaustible charity, whose lamented
death some months ago occasioned the most profound regrets to all who had
the honour of her acquaintance, especially among the poor. It is also the name
of a distinguished amateur who worthily continues the grand traditions left by
Madame Gisez, and whose collections may be considered as one of the most
charming and most select in France.

Cypripedium x Gibezianwn was raised in the collection of Madame GIBEz,
of Sens, by crossing C. venustum with the pollen of C. villoswm. It is well inter-
mediate between the two parents, and we may remark in this connection that
both of the parents have very marked characters, which always imprint themselves
upon their descendants in a very decided way. Most of the hybrids derived

from C. villosum bear so distinctly the marks of this parent that they may be
recognised at first sight, and the same may be said of those derived from
C. Spicerianum, C. superbiens, and also C. venustum. In the present hybrid the
influence of the last named preponderates over that of C. villosum.

The flower has the petals very analogous with those of C. villoswm, but a
little shorter, less expanded at the summit and darker in colour; the upper
half being of a bright mahogany brown, and the base clear yellow with some
bright purple-brown spots. The dorsal sepal, which most resembles C. venustum,
is pale yellow covered with green stripes, which are reddish on their inferior
third, and purple brown near the median nerve. The lip, which is broad and
long, and very massive, is of a clear brownish red, with the lower part
greenish yellow, and the lateral lobes of a bright waxy yellow.

In short, this hybrid is of a very distinct and attractive character, and
appears worthy to be comprised in the best collections.

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REPOTTING AND MULTIPLICATION OF ANGRAECUMS,
AERIDES AND VANDAS.

Plants of this class should generally be cultivated in pots or baskets, and
the difference of these two methods should be well distinguished with respect to
the frequency of repotting required. :

Aerides and Saccolabium generally succeed well in baskets, especially the
smaller species, such as S. Hendersom, S. miniatum, S. curvifolium, Aerides
japonicum, A. multiflorum, etc. The larger plants, however, should not be
suspended from the roof, nor can the whole of the smaller ones be always
suspended, because of the want of space in the upper part of the house. But
whenever the plants require to be placed on the stages certain amateurs prefer
pots to baskets, which are not generally so stable or so convenient.

With regard to plants of large size (and this is applicable to Vandas generally),
it is advantageous to place them in baskets, because the compost will be better
preserved, more aired, and the repotting more easy to effect.

The repotting of a plant six feet high, to which size Vandas frequently attain,
would be a rather delicate operation if the plant were cultivated in a pot, and
one demanding much care, and would require at least two men to support the
plant, remove it from the receptacle and place it in a new one.

In a basket, on the other hand, the manipulation is easy. Without even
removing the plant we cut the wires of the basket, add one or more rows of staves
above, which are then refastened with galvanised iron wire, and the additional
space filled with sphagnum moss. This operation suffices to hide the naked base
of the stem, which is generally the object of repotting.

If the object is to renew the compost at the base, and the ‘drainage, we un-
roll or cut the wire at the base, and detach one or two rows of staves, and pick
out the drainage and the lower part of the compost, add fresh sphagnum and
new drainage, and refasten the basket, after removing one or two rows of staves,
so as to diminish the depth.

The inconvenience caused by the baskets having less stability is of little
importance as these grand plants need never be removed, when once they
have been placed in position on the tables; and cultivators can therefore

arrange the baskets with greater care and thus give them the necessary

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bility.

With respect to Angraecums, which come from different regions, and require
a rather more substantial compost, mixed with fibrous peat, we prefer to cultivate

(To be continued on p. 40.)

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CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 7.
Cattleya Trianae. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 63.
Var. Capartiana Linp, Vide supra.

his beautiful variety, remarkable for the size of its flowers and their
dark colour, particularly at the tips of the petals, may be considered
ei aS one of the best forms of Cattleya Trianae (certain linguists think
that it is more correct to say Trianaei), a species so rich in splendid forms. It
flowered this year in the charming collection of D' Caparr, after whom it is
named.

I cannot give a better idea of the attractiveness of this collection than is
furnished by the Gardeners’ Chronicle, for ADU Telas tac

“In the Rue d’Egmont, a busy but fashionable part of Brussels, near the
Parc Leopold, is the veriest bijou of an Orchid collection, contained in an orne-
mental structure placed at the end of an ordinary town garden. Here the owner,
the noted D* Cararr, whose skill in the healing art has brought him such a large
practice, finds his chief relaxation, which, he says, is not to be obtained anywhere
as it is among plants by one who is fond of them. Very early morning finds the
learned doctor among his Orchids, and usually the day closes with a visit to
them. It is that constant and loving attention, paid them by one who has made a
study of Nature, and of Nature’s ways, both in the vegetable and the animal
kingdom, a part of his daily life, which has brought about the excellent condition
and vigorous health of all the plants in this small but rich collection of Orchids.

“The first house you enter is cool, and in it were found magnificent
examples of Odontoglossum crispum, three of them being superb, and of different
types, bearing flowers of large size and much substance on spikes some three feet
in length. One had wax-like pure white flowers, very flatly arranged; Men
had equally fine flowers, but with crumpled petals, and the whole Homies tinged
with purple; and the third had spots of a rich reddish-brown tint. With these
were other good varieties; and in bloom a fine violet-coloured Odontoglossum
Edwardii, Oncidium serratum, Ada aurantiaca and diverse species; a fine Masde-
vallia Veitchiana, with other Masdevallias in bud.

“ In the central division, which is furnished with a dome roof, were observed
plants of a grandly-grown Laelia purpurata, as well as various Cattleyas, remar-

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kable for vigour, and all well set with flower sheaths. In flower were good
examples of Coelogyne cristata and C. c. Lemomiana; a noble plant of the fine
white Chysis bractescens, some beautiful forms of Lycaste Skinneri, Cattleya citrina,
Odontoglossum citrosmum, with many spikes, and several others.

“ In the third division, the collection of Cypripediums, Phalaenopsis, Angrae-
cums, Vandas, Dendrobiums, etc., were in fine condition, with some in bloom,
among which we noted Phalaenopsis Stuartiana, P. Schilleriana, Dendrobium nobile,
and a plant of Aganisia cyanea, with its large sky-blue flowers, which last, being
a difficult plant to manage successfully, bespeaks the Doctor's skill in Orchid
culture, for he manages the plants himself. ”

(Concluded from p. 38.)

them in pots. Besides which these plants do not generally attain such a size as
Vandas, and their repotting therefore does not present any difficulty.

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The propagation of caulescent Orchids, of which we now come to speak,
may be effected very easily by sections of the stem. It is better, and more
convenient, to select a piece furnished with roots. The. section should be made
a short distance below a root, and the cut part should then be dusted with a
little powdered wood charcoal to make it heal. The piece should then be potted
in the ordinary way, and be placed for some time in a shady spot. The plant
thus deprived of its apex will soon grow again, by producing lateral growths.

The lateral growths which are produced from the base, or at various heights
along the stem, may also be propagated in the same way.

Fragments of stem not furnished with roots may also be propagated, if
potted and placed in a shady house, in a warm and very humid atmosphere.
The cutting may also be placed under bell-glasses in a thick bed of sphagnum

moss. The roots will appear later, and the plants may then be potted and placed
under ordinary conditions.

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MASDEVALLIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, Deel zs

Masdevallia Davisi. Aff. M, Harryanae. Dense caespitosa; foliis cuneato-ligulatis obtuse acutis valde carnosis

3 sepalo superiori a triangulo basi in caudam longiorem
extenso; sepalis lateralibus oblongis ultra medium connatis, lobis oblongis subito ac abrupte breve aristatis ; tepalis
ligulatis obtuse acutis, antice emarginatis ante unguem semi-sagittatis, bicarinatis;
latiori, tricarinato, androclinii membrana serrata,

angustis; pedunculo longe exserto, cupula perigonii recta

labello pandurato acuto, antice

Masdevallia Davisi Rous. F. in Gard. Chron., II, 1b Foe, —

Ip., V, p. 306; Xen. Orch,, III, t. 203; Bot.
Mag., t. 6190.

asdevallia Davisii occupies a very distinct place in the genus by reason
| of its colour, which is altogether unique and very attractive. It is the
£ only pure yellow which exists among Masdevallias, and this tint is
therefore as rare as in some other genera. It is this character which gives to
Cattleya citrina its celebrity. :

Masdevallia Davisii was discovered in 1873 by the collector Davis, of the
firm of James Verrcu & Sons, on the eastern Cordillera of Peru, a short distance
from Cuzco.

He met with it on the sides of the mountains at a considerable altitude,
from about 10,500 to 12,000 feet altitude, growing under conditions which
Bunceroru has so well described in the Journal des Orchidées : —

“On the mountain sides covered with Sobralias of diverse tints, in the
cool shady places, often watered by the crystal fluid from a small stream, are
found among ferns, Adiantums, etc., large tufts of Masdevallia. The natives
call them banderitas (little flags), because at a distance they appear like little
standards, standing erect among the cool and beautiful foliage which surrounds

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“ The numerous species which this genus contains do not delight in full
sun, or in a bright light. The majority of them are terrestrial, and grow among
cool mosses and little ferns, generally along the margins of cool and rapid
rivulets, in shady woods.

“A small number of species with beautiful flowers of medium size, are
found in more elevated localities, in an argillaceous soil mixed with little stones,
and exposed to more light, lastly a very few grow on the branches of an evergreen

-oak, Quercus Humblotii.
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never descend to very low altitudes. They therefore require a temperature
identical with that given to the majority of Odontoglossums, which they closely
approach in other respects with regard to the districts in which they are collected.
Their extremely dark and very brilliant tints, which the pencil of the artist
is hardly able to reproduce faithfully, gives to most of them a particular interest,
and it is rare to find in the elevated regions of the South American Cordillera a
flower whose penetrating colour arrests the attention or excites the admiration
as much as the Masdevallias....

Masdevallias, in conclusion, certainly deserve a place in all collections of
choice Orchids, and increase notably their beauty and importance, by the infinite
variations which they present, both in form and colour. ”

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LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., IL, p. 25.
Laelio-cattleya Cauwenberghei L, LInD., supra.

+ ecent importations, and especially those of the last two or three years,
| have revealed in certain Brazilian species which are already celebrated
= some further and very beautiful variations.

This has been particularly the case with Laelia purpurata and L. or Laelio-
cattleya x elegans, which have revealed varieties so rich and numerous that the
amateur is enbarrassed to know which to admire most.

Laelio-cattleya x elegans has undoubtedly caused hybridists to experiment
with Laelia purpurata, one of the most splendid among Orchids with large
flowers, and also one of those which best stamps its character upon its descen-
dants. At the same time it serves to enhance the value of another less brilliant
group, that of Cattleya guttata, whose characters are well apparent in certain
forms of the natural hybrid of which we have spoken.

Laelio-catileya x Cauwenberghei certainly belongs to the same group, but is
distinguished by its size and clear colour, tinted with yellow, of the floral seg-

ments. Although its parents are not exactly known, we have little hesitation in
assigning its origin to a cross between Cattleya granulosa and Laelia purpurata.
It resembles the former species by the form and strong substance of its sepals
and petals, their ground colour yellow lightly suffused with an olive tint, set off
with purple dots, the breadth of the extremity of the petals and the light undu-
lation of the margins, and lastly by the form of the front lobe of the lip, whose
colour however is warmer and richer and its size larger.

As we have said above, we have not found a form approaching it among
forms of Laelio-catileya x elegans, whose limits are moreover somewhat uncertain.
L.-c. x elegans Nyleptha, which flowered some yars ago, presents some of the
same tendencies, if we may judge by the descriptions which have been given, but
none, to our knowledge, has this ample form, this imposing and graceful colour.

L.-c. x Cauwenberghei flowered for the first time in the houses of L’Horti-
CULTURE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, in 1893. It is dedicated to one of the foremen
of this establishment, who has already completed twenty years of loyal service

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COCHLIODA NOTZLIANA

The Gardeners’ Chronicle, in its number for May 26 last, publishes the

following note respecting this Orchid : —

© Now that this beautiful novelty is getting better known in gardens, its
real merits are becoming acknowledged. As with most species of Orchids, some
varieties are considered to be better than others, although it cannot be said
that there is a bad one among them. The plant being small in stature, and
neat in habit, would be considered well furnished even if it bore much less
conspicuous flowers than even the worst varieties give. The best variety that
we have seen is kindly forwarded to us by W. C. Crark, Esq., Orleans House,
Sefton Park, Liverpool. It is a graceful, six-flowered spray, each flower 1 3/4 inch
broad, in colour brilliant vermillon overlaying orange. The crest of the lip is
bright yellow, and the apez of the column rose-coloured. The plant requires
to be grown near the glass of the roof, like Sophronitis grandiflora, but slightly
warmer, and with abundance of water. ”

We may add that when this plant is well cultivated it produces long
inflorescences carrying a large number of flowers, of very remarkable decorative
effect. A connoisseur who recently visited the collection of M. Datremacne, of
Rambouillet, tells us that among the plants most admired in this beautiful
collection was a superb specimen of Cochlioda Notzliana covered with groups
of very large flowers. The bright colour of this species is particularly splendid
under artificial light, as it then gives silken reflections of incomparable brilliance.
Cochlioda Notzliana is also very useful for cut flowers.

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English edition

CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING NUMBERS:

ist Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
X parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina ,
Cochlioda Notzliana, Cypripedium X Bragaianum, Cypripedium X Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium X Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var. alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum x Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae,

294 Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var. Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya x
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthes leucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
X Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

3 Volume

Cirrhopetalum Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var, albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum X excellens var, dellense,
Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var. Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var, elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae yur. tenebrosa, Cattleya & Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.
Statteriana, Cattleya » Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium >< Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
gtaminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

5" Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi,
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var.
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium >< me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia XX Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya ><

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

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LINDENIA

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CONDUCTED BY

J. Linpen, Lucien Linpen and Em. Ropraas.

THE COLOURED PORTRAITS BY

P. DE PANNEMAEKER, A. GOOSSENS and J. GOFFART.

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tum Hort. . Cer On tgh Po hos gag. NG cochilumsHortra\: asa. sia est eet
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QDONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM toe. var. OCELLATUM norr.

THE CRISPED ODONTOGLOSSUM, VARIETY WITH SMALL ROUND
SPOTS.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 11.
Odontoglossum crispum. Vide Lindenia, I, p- IOr.
Var. ocellatum Horv., supra.

seg he Lindenia has already figured several varieties of Odontoglossum
crispuin, a magnificent species so rich in superb forms and marvellous
§ colours. But it appears that the number is inexhaustible, and we have
to-day the opportunity to reproduce a new and very distinct form, which is
clearly distinguished from the majority of known varieties.

In this the spots, instead of being large and more or less grouped and
agglomerated in the centre, are very small, round, and arranged along the
margins, somewhat as in some of the brightest forms of O. x Ruckerianum;
underneath as in that one; lastly the spots are bright red, not brown, as in the
case of most of the varieties of O. crisbum.

This beautiful variety made its appearance at the end of 1893 in the
collection of W. THompson, Esq., of Walton Grange, Stone, a collection which
we know is particularly rich in the rarest and most splendid Odontoglossums.

L. L.

SPOTS ON THE LEAVES OF ORCHIDS.

The black spots which sometimes appear on the leaves of Orchids, and which spoil
their appearance, are generally produced by fungi, which fix themselves on the leaves, and
are there developed as parasites, at the expense of the cellular tissue, which they gradually
destroy.

These fungi belong chiefly to the genera Calospora, Dactylaria, Glaeosporium, Cladospo-
rium, Hypodermium and Sphaerella.

Their determination is difficult, and requires not only a thorough knowledge of subject,
but also long and often very delicate researches, and sometimes special cultivation.

When the fungi are separately established on a leaf, it is easy to determine if it is a
type already known, and if by chance it is not, to ascertain quickly its characters, and to
assign to it its proper place in the system of classification. At the same time it is possible

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to isolate them to study the conditions under which they live, their development and the
extent of their ravages, and thus, by knowing their habits, to know at the same time their
subsequent occurence, and to prevent their multiplication.

It is, however, rare for these Cryptogams to occur isolated. There exist, moreover,
a certain number of forms which inhabit our houses, and are found together on the same
leaves, frequently with others growing upon them.

When the parasitic fungi have penetrated the surface and attacked the substance of
the leaf, the saprophytes which live upon the products of decomposition introduce them-
selves, whereupon the destruction of the leaf progresses rapidly, and the microscope can
neither furnish precise indication of the nature of the disease, nor of its origin, the fungi
being so much mixed up with other vegetation.

It sometimes happens, indeed, as in the case of the fungus which sometimes attacks
the Vanilla in the Seychelle islands, Calospora Vanillae, that the same fungus undergoes
successive transformations as the disease spreads over the leaf. Thus the species in question,
C. Vanillae, had already received three different names before the common origin of its
three forms was known.

Supposing, indeed, that we are able to isolate and determine the different fungi present
it is impossible, without knowing thoroughly the life history of each, either to say which
form commenced the attack, and opened the way for the others, or what would be useful to
check the spread of the disease. With four, five, or even ten different fungi present, how can
we determine the parts played by each in the mischief? In such cases one must proceed to
cultivate the species separately, and submit them to prolonged observation. One learns
thus their nature and habits. Afterwards, if traces of analogous wounds are found on the
leaves, their origin can immediately be determined.

Thus we see how much research is necessary to obtain a definite result on such a
subject. It is much to be desired that amateurs should facilitate these researches by sending
materials, namely the diseased leaves which they find in their houses, to the laboratories
established for this purpose, especially to the one which the Botanical Society of Brussels
has recently established.

It is very important to cut the leaves a soon as the disease appears, and not when it
is too far advanced to enable one to determine the origin.

Sometimes, indeed, when the damage is first observed, the fungus itself, which has
caused it has already disappeared, having accomplished its work. This is the case, for
example, with the potato disease. The fungus dies after having destroyed the substance of
the leaf, and when these become black the mischief is already done, beyond all possible
remedy. The only things which we can then discover with the microscope are the various
saprophytes which have succeeded the original parasite, now only represented by spores.

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We may now speak of the methods of combatting the fungi.

These parasites generally develop when the houses are kept too hot or too cold,
especially when the air is too close, and too much charged with stagnant humidity. In
order to expel the fungi, we should therefore ventilate the houses as much as possible,
and keep the temperature within proper limits, and observe generally all the precautions
which tend to produce healthy growth.

On the other hand, as we cannot entirely prevent the introduction of the fungi into our
houses, we must examine the leaves from time to time, and wash them with weak tobacco

(To be continued on p. 48.)

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ODONTOGLOSSUM CORDATUM unoz. var. AUREUM soar.

THE CORDATE ODONTOGLOSSUM, YELLOW VARIETY.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 11.

Odontoglossum cordatum. Pseudobulbis oblongis

; pressis diphyllis; foliis late-oblongis planis acutis scapo
squamis carinatis vaginato brevioribus; racemo stricto disticho ; bracteis navicularibus acuminatis membranaceis;
sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatissimis; labello cordato acuminatissimo, integerrimo, appendice unguis
carnosa apice biloba basi utrinque dente unico aucto, columna pubescente clava subaptera.

Odontoglossum cordatum LINDL. in Bot. Reg., 1838, Misc. 90, et 1845 Misc. 60, n° 33. — KNowL et WEsTCc.,
Flor. Cab., t. 100. — PaxTon Mag. of Bot,, XIII, p. 147. — LinDEN Pescatorea, t. 26. — BATEM. Monogr. Od.,
t. 25. — Gartenfl., t. 356. — WiLuiaMs Orch. Alb., IV, t. 186.

Var. aureum Hort., WILLIAMS Orch. Alb., XI, t. 489.

dontoglossum cordatum is one of the most ancient species in the genus.
It was originally introduced by Mr Gzorce Barker, of Birmingham,
<3) and flowered for the first time in his collection in 1838, though it soon
afterwards disappeared from cultivation, in the same way as many other cool

Orchids, because at this epoch their proper treatment was not understood. It was
not until 1854 that is was definitely re-introduced into cultivation, by M. J. Linpen,
and became dispersed among various collections.

As was remarked by the author of Pescatorea, in describing O. cordatum, this
species is very nearly allied of O. maculatum, whose history is pretty nearly the
same, for it also was introduced by Mr Grorce Barker, of Birmingham, was
soon lost to cultivation, and was re-introduced by M. LinpEn.

O. cordatum, however, is distinguished from O. maculatum, by its habit,
its more elongated and narrower sepals and petals, and the more acuminate
shape and different colour of its lip.

The typical form has the sepals reddish-brown, tinted with yellow at their
points, and ornamented with two or three transverse yellow lines at the base ;
the petals pale yellow releived with large brownish red spots, and suffused with
brown at the tips, and the lip white or yellowish spotted with brown at the point
and along the median line from the base.

The variety aurewm is distinguished by its pale colour, which is almost wholly
sulphur yellow, on which the spots of the type are but very soa) represented,
with a pale olive tint. It is therefore a sort of albino, analogous with the ion of
Odontoglossum Insleayi which was figured in this work under dhe meme of variety
Imschootianum, and the form of O. Schlieperianum which is cultivated as variety

xanthinum.

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O. cordatum is a native of Central America, in the middle of Mexico and the
northern parts of Guatemala. It is therefore a species which requires rather less

air and slightly more warmth than the Columbian Odontoglossums.
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(Concluded from p. 46.)

water. Those which we find attacked should be washed with a dilute solution of sulphate
of copper, which is a better remedy in such cases. Lastly, those which are badly diseased
and on which the black spots have destroyed the surface should be cut off and burnt, to
prevent the reproduction of the fungi.

One should take care not to shake the leaves in cutting them, and to carry them
wrapped in paper, so that the spores may not become detached, and so infect the other
plants and propagate the disease.

Lastly one should avoid leaving dead leaves or other decomposing vegetable refuge
on or under the stages, as this constitutes a very dangerous source of infection. Thus we

see that cleanliness is of the utmost importance.
Comte DE Moran.

(Fournal des Orchidées, vol. V.)

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CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROYAE GOoODEFR. var. LEUCOCHILUM Hort.

A. Goossens pinx. P. De Pannemaeker ehrom.

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CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROYAE covsrr. var. LEUCOCHILUM norr.

M™ GODEFROY’S CYPRIPEDIUM, WHITE LIPPED VARIETY.

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 7s

Cypripedium Godefroyae GobEF., in Orchidoph., t. 830. — Flor. and Pom.
t. 492. — WILLIAMS Orch. Alb., IV, t. 177. — Bot. Mag., t. 68
VeITcH, Man. of Orchid. Pl., IV, Pp. 27.

Var. leucochilum Hort., Gard. Chron., XV (1894), p. 717; Id., p. 815,

, 1884, p. 37. — The Garden, XXVII,
76. — Gard. Chron., XXIII, P. 49, cum ic. xyl, —

cum ic. xyl.

ypripedium Godefroyae is a species at once very interesting and very
beautiful, belonging to a small section which is very distinct in habit
and colouring, and comprises also C. bellatulum, C. concolor and
C. mveum.

It was discovered about the year 1876 by an Englishman named. Murton,
who sold to M. Gopzrroy, a nurseryman of Argenteuil, the plants which he
had collected, but M. Murron died before the plants were sent home, and they
were left to the care of another Englishman named ALapasTER, who sent the
first introductions of this species to M. Goprrroy and to the Royal Gardens,
Kew. The first Hower was produced at the end of 1884, in the collections of
Baron Roruscnitp, at Ferriéres and M. Lee, of Leatherhead.

C. Godefroyae was originally found on a little rocky island, situated near
the island of Champon, in the northern part of the Malayan gulf. It appears,
according to the Garden, that it grows only on the western part of the island,

that is the one facing the Malay peninsula, and never towards the east. Some
of the plants were collected at only about 15 feet above the level of the sea,
whence it ranged up to about 80 feet altitude. In this situation the plants are
in the shade up to about ro o'clock in the morning, and afterwards exposed to
the direct rays of the tropical sun during the rest of the day.

C. Godefroyae is rather variable, and in this respect establishes a certain
transition towards other species of the group to which it belongs. Some of
its varieties approach rather near to C. bellatulum, still they generally differ
in the shape of the floral segments, especially of the petals, which have the
margins undulate, and the apex emarginate. In the foliage, moreover, it is clearly
distinguished from this species. In habit it is nearly identical with C. niveum,
in fact it is difficult to distinguish between the two plants though the two flowers
are very different.

C. Godefroyae is in colour very analogous with C. bellatulum, with the sepals

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and petals of a cream white, covered with large purple-brown spots, more
numerous towards the base, and disposed more or less in lines parallel with
the median nerve.
The variety leucochilum, which is figured in the annexed plate, made its
appearance in the month of June, in the collection of R. J.. MEAsurEs, Esq., of
Camberwell, and is very distinct and remarkable. M. Measures’ flower, of which
the Gardeners’ Chronicle published, in its number of June 30 last, a beautiful
woodcut, bears a general resemblance to C. bellatulum, and demonstrates, as

the Gardeners’ Chronicle remarks, that the line of demarcation which separates

certain extreme forms of the two species is very fine. The present one, however,
possesses the peculiarity, which has given the name to the variety, of having
the front of the lip entirely cream white, without any spots except on the inside
of the lip and the staminode, which bear a large number of minute purple spots.

M. Measures’ flower presents also another peculiarity which is not present

in our example, in having the apex of the lip prolonged into a little. point. The
' peculiarity is pretty constant in this plant, it appears, but others of the same

importation have not produced it.

The plant which served for our model flowered recently in the collection of
M. Houzeau De Leuate, of Mons, a member of the Belgian Chamber of Repre-
sentatives. It was exhibited at the Horticultural Exhibition at Mons, where it
excited very great interest. Tels:

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ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI uno. var. CHABERIAE uno.

PESCATORE'’S ODONTOGLOSSUM, M™ CHABER’S VARIETY.

ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 11.
Odontoglossum Pescatorei. Vide Lindenia, IV, p. 71.
Var. Chaberiae. Varietas labello pulcherrime purpureo.

his is a superb variety of one of the oldest and most celebrated species.

Odontoglosswm Pescatorei is one of the kings of the cool house, and
the rival of O. crisbum, which it equals as regards its floriferousness.
But it does not produce so many varieties, and its colour is more regular.

The Lindenia has already published two very remarkable forms of this species,
one entirely suffused with rose, and of exceptional size, the other richly spotted
with reddish purple on all the segments.

The variety figured in the annexed plate is only spotted on the lip, the sepals
and petals being entirely pure white. But the lip presents a colour of incomparable
richness, both on the lateral lobes and on the front one; the purple lines and

spots are so numerous and so large that the white ground almost completely
disappears. The contrast between this organ and the rest of the flower is one of
great beauty.

This superb variety flowered in the collection of an ardent and discrimina-
ting amateur, M. A. Cuaser, to whose mother we are pleased to dedicate it. The
collection of this amateur has been selected with extreme care, only the most
remarkable and most celebrated species being represented, and often by choice
varieties of great rarity. The Lindenia might assuredly have the opportunity of
publishing a series of marvels, difficult to meet with elsewhere in cultivation,
from examples in the collection of M. Cuaser, if the modesty of this distinguished
amateur were not opposed to such publicity.

We do not here refer to the history of O. Pescatorei, which has already been
written; it is pretty well known that this famous species was introduced in 1847
by M. J. Linpgn, and flowered for the first time in 1851.

We are glad to be able to conclude the seventh volume of this work by such

a beautiful variety of an eminently popular Orchid. +
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BIBLIOGRAPHY.

LE LIVRE DES ORCHIDEES. — By Comte OswaLp DE Kercnove DE DeEn-
TERGHEM. A very interesting volume of six hundred pages in which a large
number of facts are collected together and very well arranged. The author,
however, has unfortunately fallen into a number of serious errors.

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THE ORCHID GROWER’S MANUAL, the excellent treatise by M*' WILuIAms,
has reached its seventh edition, much improved and handsomely got up. It is

written by a connoisseur of Orchids. —
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PART VII.

Cattleya Aclandiae Lindl. var. tigrina Hort,

Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var. Lindeni Hort.

Cattleya Eldorado Lind. var. Oweni Lind.

Cattleya Trianae Lind. var. Capartiana Lind,
Cymbidium eburneum Lindl.

Cypripedium Dallemagnei Hort.

Cypripedium x Gibezianum Lind. a
Cypripedium insigne Wallich var. montanum Hort.
Cypripedium Godefroyae Godefr. var. leucochilum Hort.
Dendrobium Wardianum Warn. var. Lindeniae Hort. .
Laelia x juvenilis Bleu.

Laelio Cattleya x Cauwenberghei Lind,

Laelio-Cattleya x elegans Rolfe var. leucotata Hort.
Lycaste x Imschootiana Lind. .

Lycaste Luciani Van Imsch. et Cogn.

Masdevallia Davisi .

Maxillaria mirabilis Cogn.

Odontoglossum cirrhosum Lindl.

Odontoglossum cordatum Lindl. var. aureum Hort.
Odontoglossum crispum Lindl. var. Dallemagneae Lind. .
Odontoglossum crispum Lindl. var. ocellatum Hort.
Odontoglossum crispum Lindl. var. Waltonense Lind.
Odontoglossum Pescatorei Lind. var. Chaberiae Lind.
Trichopilia suavis Lindl. i
Zygopetolum intermedium Lodd. var. peruvianum Rolfe :

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it Volume

Aganisia ionoptera, Catasetum saccatum, Cattleya Buyssoniana, Cattleya
x parthenia, Cattleya Rex, Cattleya Warocqueana var. amethystina ,
Cochlioda Nétzliana, Cypripedium Bragaianum, Cypripedium % Des-
boisianum, Cypripedium X Engelhardtae, Cypripedium Stonei, Dendrobium

Phalaenopsis, Laelia purpurata, Laelia purpurata var, alba, Mormodes Law-
renceanum, Odontoglossum Bergmani, Odontoglossum Claesianum, Onci-
dium lamelligerum, Oncidium Leopoldianum, Peristeria aspersa, Phalaenopsis
Lowi, Phalaenopsis speciosa, Zygopetalum Gautieri, Zygopetalum Lindeniae,

2x¢ Volume

Aerides suavissimum, Anguloa uniflora var: Treyerani, Burlingtonia pu-
bescens, Catasetum barbatum var. spinosum, Cattleya bicolor, Cattleya ><
Hardyana var. Laversinensis, Coryanthes leucocorys, Cycnoches peruvianum,
Cypripedium X vexillarium, Dendrobium X Ainsworthi, Dendrobium leuco-
lophotum, Dendrobium superbiens, Diacrium bicornutum, Disa grandiflora,

Laelia grandis var. tenebrosa, Laelia purpurata var. rosea, Laelio-Cattleya
X Arnoldiana, Masdevallia coriacea, Mormodes Rolfeanum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. xanthotes, Phalaenopsis violacea, Rhynchostylis coelestis, Sele-
nipedium X calurum, Trichocentrum triquetrum.

3? Volume

Cirrhopetalum‘Amesianum, Cypripedium exul var. Imschootianum, Den-
drobium bigibbum var. albo-marginatum, Epidendrum Capartianum, Eulo-
phiella Elisabethae, Habenaria militaris, Houlletia odoratissima, Lycaste
lasioglossa, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Odontoglossum X excellens var. dellense,

teria Lindeni, Phaius tuberculosus, Saccolabium bellinum, Saccolabium
Hendersonianum, Selenipedium caudatum var, Uropedium, Sobralia violacea,
Stanhopea eburnea, Stanhopea Moliana, Stanhopea Wardii var. venusta,
Stauropsis Warocqueana, Trichopilia brevis, Zygopetalum cerinum.

Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Lindeniae, Odontoglossum praestans, Peris-

4 Volume

Anguloa uniflora var. eburnea, Bulbophyllum anceps, Bulbophyllum
Dearei, Cattleya Aclandiae, Cattleya Alexandrae var. elegans, Cattleya
Alexandrae vir. tenebrosa, Cattleya x Brymeriana, Cattleya Dowiana var.:
Statteriana, Cattleya Hardyana var. Gardeniana, Coryanthes macro-
corys, Cypripedium >< Leonae, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Dendrobium Mac-

Carthiae, Dendrobium nobile var. Cooksonianum, Epidendrum Wallisi,
Grammangis Ellisii, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. Broomeana, Miltonia
vexillaria var. virginalis, Odontoglossum Insleayi var. Imschootianum,
Odontoglossum nebulosum, Stanhopea insignis, Vanda insignis, Zygopetalum
gtaminifolium, Zygopetalum (Warscewiczella) Lindeni.

5" Volume

Angraecum articulatum, Batemannia Colleyi, Brassia bicolor, Cattleya
amethystoglossa var. rosea, Cattleya Hardyana var. Statteriana, Cattleya
labiata, Cattleya Mossiae var. Mendeli, Chysis bractescens, Coelogyne
Hookeriana, Colax jugosus, Cypripedium Lucienianum, Cypripepium >< me-
moria Moensi, Cyrtopodium Aliciae, Laelia X Oweniae, Laelio-Cattleya <<

Gina
Aerides Lawrenceae, Aganisia lepida, Catasetum Imschootianum, Cata-
setum Rodigasianum var. tenebrosum, Cattleya Aclandiae var. salmonea
Cattleya Eldorado var. Treyeranae, Cattleya velutina, Chondrorhyncha
Chestertoni, Cymbidium grandiflorum var. punctatum, Cymbidium Lowia-
num, Cypripedium X Claudii, Cypripedium > Conco-Lawre, Cypripedium
X Lathamianum, Cypripedium > Lawrebel, Cypripedium philippinense,

amoena var. delicata, Lycaste macrobulbon var. Youngi, Lycaste Skinneri
var. purpurea, Masdevallia Harryana varietates, Maxillaria callichroma,
Miltonia Warscewiczi, Mormodes igneum var. maculatum, Odontoglossum
crispum var. Ferrierense, Phalaenopsis Liiddemanniana, Vanda tricolor var.
planilabris.

olume rss

Cypripedium X Weathersianum, Galeandra Claesii, Laelia purpurata var.
fastuosa, Laelio-Cattleya < eximia, Lycaste cinnabarina, Masdevallia X
Pourbaixi, Maxillaria striata, Odontoglossum Thompsonianum, Odonto-
glossum Triomphe de Rambouillet, Vanda tricolor var. Hoveae, Zygope-
talum grandiflorum,

72 Volume

Cattleya Aclandiae var. tigrina, Cattleya Eldorado var, Lindeni, Cattleya
Eldorado var. Oweni, Cattleya Trianae var. Caparti, Cymbidium eburneum
Cypripedium Dallemagnei, Cypripedium X Gibezianum, Cypripedium
Godefroyae var. leucochilum, Cypripedivm insigne var, montanum, Dendro-
bium Wardianum var. Lindeniae, Laelia X juvenilis,” Laelio-Cattleya ><
Cauwenberghei, Laelio-Cattleya elegans var. leucotata, Lycaste & Im-

schootiana, Lycaste Luciani, Masdevallia Davisi, Maxillaria mirabilis, Odon-
toglossum cirrhosum, Odontoglossum cordatum var. aureum, Odontoglossum
crispum var, Dallemagneae, Odontoglossum crispum var, ocellatum, Odon-
toglossum crispum var. Waltonense, Odontoglossum Pescatorei var. Cha-
beriae, Trichopilia suavis, Zygopetalum intermedium var. peruvianum.