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membranaceae, | mm. longae. Ovarium breve, longe hirsutum, 
pilis crassiusculis et patentibus. Sepala subpatentia et paullo 
incurva, lanceolato-oblonga, subacuta, 0'7—-0'8 cm. longa. etala 
subpatentia, elliptico-lanceolata, subacuta, 0°7-0°8 cm. longa. 
Labellum breviter unguiculatum, subincurvum, hastato-trilobum, 
prope basin angulatum, 0°7 cm. longum; lobi laterales falcato- 
oblongi, incurvi, 3 mm. longi; lobus intermedius ovatus, subob- 
tusus, apice paullo recurvus. Columna clavato-oblonga, 0°5 cm. 
longa, rostellum oblongum, pubescens, violaceum. 
CrenTrat AMERICA. Costa Rica, near Cachi, C. H. Lankester 
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Sent to Kew by Mr. C. H. Lankester in 1915, and flowered in 
the collection in July, 1916. The flowers are pale buff with red- 
purple spots and bars, the lip white with purple spots and a 
similar suffusion on the side lobes, the column pale buff mar- 
gined with dull purple, and the rostellum violet. 
XI.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
We note with pleasure in the recently issued list of New Year 
Honours the names of Dr. Francis Watts, Imperial Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture for the West Indies, and Dr. Lronarp 
Ropway, Government Botanist, Tasmania, both of whom His 
Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint to be Knights 
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and 
St. George. 
GrorGE Epwarp MAssrE.—Rather less than two years ago it 
was our pleasant task to give, in the pages of the Aew Bulletin, 
a notice of the life and work of Mr. G. Massee on the occasion 
ot his retirement. We have now the sad duty of recording his 
death, which occurred after a short illness at Sevenoaks on 
February 17th, 1917. 
After his retirement on March 31st, 1915, Mr. Massee removed 
to Park Place, Sevenoaks, where he busied himself with garden- 
ing and other pursuits. He also investigated the mycology of 
the district, and had suggested the holding of a fungus foray in 
that neighbourhood in the autumn of the present year. 
George Massee was a Yorkshire man, being born at Scampston 
about the year 1850. For a general account of his life, his scien- 
tific work, and his skill as an artist, the former article (K.B. 
1915, pp. 118-120), must be consulted. A few additional lines 
as to BE career may, however, be added since Mr. Massee was 
not only one of the great men of Kew, but was known the world 
over as an authority on fungi. 
His earlier work on fungi was almost entirely from the morpho- 
logical and systematic standpoint, his later work and that by 
which he is most wide own in this country, was largely on 
plant diseases. But if the latter subject attracted him and 
appealed most to the general public, his systematic work was on 
the whole the more important and will find a more permanent 
place in the history of mycology. 
