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which other species effect with equal ingenuity if 
less elaboration. Very pretty tooare some of them, 
as B. Lobbu. Its clear, clean, orange-creamy hue 
is delightful to behold. The lip, so delicately 
balanced, quivers at every breath. If the slender 
stem be bent back, as by a fly alighting on the 
column, that quivering cap turns and hangs im- 
minent; another tiny shake, as though the fly 
approached the nectary, and it falls plump, head 
over heels, like a shot, imprisoning the insect. 
Thus the flower is impregnated. If we wished 
to excite a thoughtful child’s interest in botany 
—not regardless of the sense of beauty either 
—we should make an investment in Bulbophyllum 
Lobbit. Bulbophyllum Dearez also is pretty—golden 
ochre spotted red, with a wide dorsal sepal, very 
narrow petals flying behind, lower sepals broadly 
striped with red, and a yellow lip, upon a hinge, 
of course; but the gymnastic performances of 
this species are not so impressive as in most of its 
kin, 
A new Bulbophyllum, B. Godseffianum, has 
lately been brought from the Philippines, contrived 
on the same principle, but even more charming. 
The flowers, two inches broad, have the colour of 
“old gold,’ with stripes of crimson on the petals, 
and the dorsal sepal shows membranes almost 
