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December 13, 1893.] 



Garden and Forest. 



515 



Cattleya BROWNii.^,This is a new species, which Mr. Rolfe 

 has named for Messrs. F. Sander & Co., who included 

 about a score of recently imported plants of it in a late 

 auction sale. A full description of it will be published in 

 the Kew Bulletin. It is said to be a strong, free grower, 

 with pseudo-bulbs about two feet high, terminated by a 

 pair of large, oblong, coriaceous leaves, and a raceme of 

 five and more floweis, which measure from three and a 

 half to four inches in diameter. The sepals and petals are 



and ordinary cool treatment will suit it. The flowers are 

 large and bold, and remind one of the beautiful O. lamelli- 

 gerum or macranthum, combining the colors of those 

 species. The petals are of a dusky red-crimson, with 

 golden margins, and they resemble somewhat those of O. 

 Kramerianum. The sepals are of the same color as the 

 petals, but quite one-colored. A most distinctive feature 

 in this new species is that the sepals stand boldly upright, 

 as in O. Kramerianum ; the spikes are stiff, and the flowers, 



Fig. 75. — New Clirysanthenium, Pitcher S: Maiida.— See page 514. 



bright rose-purple, in some of the forms spotted with darker 

 purple. The petals are a little broader than the sepals, and 

 elegantly undulated. The lip is three-lobed, the color 

 ranging from light blush pink to light rose-purple, with 

 darker veins on the rounded front lobe. 



OiNcmiuM Sanderianum. — Plants of this new Oncidium 

 have been offered for sale, and, judging from the descrip- 

 tion published by the vendors, it ought to be a first-rate 

 garden Orchid. It is said to come from the Cattleya Rex 

 country, but is found growing at a much higher elevation, 



which are individually four inches in diameter, are borne 

 in abundance. A great recommendation of this plant is its 

 adaptability to the cool greenhouse, which will suit it ad- 

 mirably, and it will grow and flower with freedom under 

 such conditions. 



AciDA.NTHERA fEQUiNOCTiALis. — This plant is HOW flowering 

 in a warm house at Kew. It was introduced from the 

 Sugar-loaf ^lountain in Sierra Leone, by Mr. Scott Elliott, 

 early this year (see Garden and Forest, page 133), corms of 

 it having been collected for him by Captain Donovan at an 



