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contribute to the success and usefulness of the Bulletin. 
Among the editors and collaborators we note the names of 
the following botanists: Carl L. Alsberg, Gertrude S. Burling- 
ham, E. D. Clark, C. A. Darling, C. Stuart Gager, Benjamin 
C. Gruenberg, William T. Horne, Homer D. House, J. E. 
Kirkwood, Elsie A. Kupfer, Burton E. Livingston, Winifred J. 
Robinson, Fred J. Seaver and A. D. Selby. 
Many of the orchids in range 1 are now flowering freely. In 
house no. 15, next to the large dome, many of the Venus-slip- 
pers, represented by the genera Paphiopedilum and Phragmi- 
cially attractive, Paphiopedilum Alcides and P. ‘‘Wm. McKin- 
ley,” of hybrid origin, and an unusually fine form of Paphiopedi- 
lum insigne, known as Harefield Hall. The flower of this variety 
is especially large, with the standard broad and flat and beauti- 
fully marked with large spots. It is one of the best of the P. 
insigne forms. Many of the genus Phragmipedium are also in 
bloom. One of these, of hybrid origin, is P. Cleola, a pure white 
flushed with rose, and resembling, in general form, the native 
white lady-slipper, Cypridedium reginae. The rosy flowers of 
Laelia anceps, a Mexican species, are just making their appear- 
ance, and the striking Laelia superbiens, well described by its 
specific name, is coming into flower, its bright flowers borne, as 
in many others of the genus, in bunches at the top of long naked 
stems. It is a native of Guatemala. In strong contrast to this 
is Laelia flava, of Brazil, with its smaller yellow flowers. A plant 
of the Javanese orchid, Vanda tricolor suavis, with large white 
flowers spotted with purple, is attractive, not only on account of 
the beauty of its colorings, but also for its pleasing fragrance. 
In the far-away Philippines grows Platyclinis glumacea. An ex- 
cellent plant of this is now in full bloom with many long slender 
drooping racemes of yellowish flowers. Oncidium Kramerianum, 
wild in northern South America, is striking in its coloring of 
orange and brown. The flower, with its long tail-like petals, is 
at the end of a long naked stem, resembling much a butterfly at 
rest, hence its name of the butterfly orchid. There are many 
other interesting orchids in this house. In house no. 12 are 
