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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jasvanv 20, 1887, 
durabili 
he sepals are lanceolate acuminate. The tw 
petals stand erect instead of spreading laterally, 
and, with the upper sepal, form a sort of 
of wax-like substance, and of great beauty and 
бау. 
т 
and so close together as to touch by their inner 
edges and thus nearly to conceal the upper sepal. 
The broad concave lip is of the same colour as the 
other flower-segments, but the throat or entrance 
are two slender curved horns (in other: species, and 
doubtless in this also) so sensitive to i impressions 
that, do but touch them, and out fly, w 
ike stile, Gel the 
roni above mentioned, runs that the pol- 
asses stick to the insect’s back, as they would 
иштикт: do, he would convey the pollen to the 
next flower visited, andso effect its impregnation. 
ose who desire to know more of the doings 
of what Darwin called *the most remarkable of 
all Orchids " should read the sixth cere, vt of his 
work “Оп the various Contrivances by which 
British and and Foreign Orchids are » Fertilised by 
Insects,” and if he is not i: impressed with 
deeper sense of Lippi and respect for plants and 
their ways in consequence, | 
lightly of his бта Gardeners will remem- 
ber the mystery of the flowers of the supposed 
distinct genera, Monacanthus, Catasetum, and 
коше. all produced on the same sc and 
how marvellous and itexylinble it all Was ‘till 
Turoa. furnished the clue, and proved that the 
different forms of flower really Pi gana 
ent sexual states of the same flow 
will be found in the flowers of C. Bun ungerothii, 
for we find that our notes taken from the plant 
sold at Stevens', and now in possession of 
Baron Schroder, do not exactly coincide with 
the drawing made by Mr. Worthington Smith 
from the plant in the collection of Mr. Tautz. 
d 
. je 
rrated edge to the lip shown in Mr. Smith’s 
illustration. As the plant from which we took 
our memor seen опа in a 
ect, and that this plant also had the 
"to the lip. Had we seen 5 
— scarcely have omitted to note 
a feature, 
conditio: 
ects great credit on Mr. Siig the 
Although growing a general collec- 
. Tautz has a special fancy for the = 
Cypripedium, of which genus his collect 
occi complete e remarks on ar 
ts are made in another column is issue 
while, for a full description of Mr. Tautz's houses 
we may refer to our previous volume, p 
Wi to the Catasetums generally, it 
те not be saying too much to asse rt tha 
it must be in the same 
we shall think but. . 
way as with other plants, viz., by giving them 
space to themselves, and treatin ng Een properly. 
Mixed up one here and = there, a stages 
with other plants, they a never r^ isfactory. 
Catasetums like plenty of light at all seasons, and 
in their general the 
e treatment as deciduous Dendrobes, 
water (or eee unless signs of wrinkling be seen 
in th obulbs) from the time the leaves 
turn yellow until the ne 
duri 
ciated with Cy 
convenient, they may be well grown in 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY. 
MASDEVALLIA PUSIOLA, n. sp.* 
THE smallest Masdevallia yet know 
St. Albans, the Masde Кее ра of Mr. 
Sander, like а "little weed йет other Columbian 
Masdevallias. by Herr 
he 
standing on capillary stalks, 
equal a quarter of an inch inlength. The flow 
as in several other species. 
colour of the flower is light sulphur. I saw the other 
A the original plant in its full grandeur or rather 
pet 
tesse in uncommon health. If amateurs dette 
arm their eyes with powerful lenses, what un 
charms of over-rich Nature might they then “delight 
in, G. Robh. f. 
DENDROBIUM STREBLOCERAS, Rchb, f. ; supra, Gard. 
™ Chron., 1886, February 27, p. 266. 
inflorescence of this very curious species is 
at ime ‘kindly sent me E Mons. Lucien Linden. 
Iti is eight- ied: and t 
late at the margins in an uncommonly complicated 
and bewildering manner, light green, with five brown 
nerves prse ofthe base, which become more 
and more пете, ae however, kept the 
gre onger, linear acute petals are 
мезар белы tei eic dk cinnamon-brown with 
The side-laciniw of the lip are 
шы. oblong truncate, green outside, with thin 
. There are tw 
senden de dilated 
th 
ones run to the apex of the mid-lacinia, the middl 
ne rises in an abrupt triangular lamella. The dise 
Gites the so the stalk, and the anterior 
lacinia, are white. nerves, as also the edges of 
the keels, are of the ые mauve-purple, which affords 
a good contrast. The column is white, with rows of 
innumerable minute brown spots in front. It is 
* Masdevallia pusiola, —Minuta, dense cæspitosa 
foliis lanceolatis emer pedunculis egg aa gon monanthis ; = 
mento egregio a ato; sepalis basin . versus fissis, 
triangulis, in cows sequilongas ситий tepalis bilobis, 
lobis s triangulis | 
er se divaricatis, labelli ungue lineari basi 
I i , lamina irem а obl ; columna apice 
umen con foveam utrinque angulata, 
carinulis semi- 
lunatis transversis utrinque ante basin Flores 
flavidi, U, S. Columbiæ, 4. G Rchb, f, 
g seeds of it to 
—— 
peculiar looking, and widely distinct from, the 
great majority of Orchids. H. G. Rchb. f. 
TILLANDSIA (VRIESIA) RETICULATA, Baker* 
This has long been kno n gardens under the 
names of Guzmannia ela "Tillandsia rie rer 
and Vriesia reticulata, b 
Bota 
plant exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at Чет» Kensing- 
ton in Psia 1879. 
cent. Leaves thirty to forty in a dense 
rose tte; vue eremi 14—2 feet long, 3 inches 
broad above the dilated base, moderately firm in 
ух; blade ear rfr : xe i: 
with two large scales at its bas a little 
longer than the petals ; piaite ones res 
lanceolate, basifixed. Ovary ovoid; style proni 
beyond the “p, of the petals; stigmas si 
orbicular. J. G. Baker 
Oxarıs CATHARINENSIS, N. E. Brown, n. sp.t 
This s very саа ее has been in cultivation 
8 pas r of О, Regnelli, 
d i e pro 
Santa Catharina, South Brazil, Е. Fritz n who 
Europe, from which pla 
sed and distributed to various а Кесу 
slut i is readily recognised by its scaly underground 
stems or rhizomes, having no bulb, and by the colour 
* Tillandsia enn —— Baker.—Acaulis ; 
80—40 lorato-lanceola етм 
арісе spen trinque v vix ix lepidot 
longo; bra vato-lanceolatis imbri 
age 
r Te Жы 
patalo; staminibus breviter exsertis, antheris 
J. G. B. 
=. Rete catharinénsis, N. E. Brown, n. sp 
‚ with or without a large ovoid, watery, tul 
— with t Rhizome branching, j—3 inc ie 
densely covered wi , thick, fleshy, broadly-ovate, provers 
imbricating scales, which are flattish on the face, very conv Sock: 
and slightly keeled on the end and puncta qme tted 
three-nerved when paal hy ioles аав inches lon 
pale green, gla iex rsely hairy to MER pon 
оч E immediately Gover the pains, which are it 
with f nded apices, and membranous margins, €! 
Leaflet: tri 
а 
nd sparsely M beneath, without any 
— dots, minutely and sparse 
Tila 
tei 4—15-flow: 
се 
longer stamens е 
ovules several in a cell, PONE D hairy ; stigmas capitate 
