January i, 1S90.1 



Garden and Forest. 



of more than' average interest, and others which were worth 

 going to see. Orchids were represented, first, by a basket of 

 choice plants from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., amongst which 

 were Odontoglossum Wattianum, the new species noted in my 

 last letter: It is not bright in color, nor uncommon in form, 

 and may be called a mixture of 0. hiteopurpureum and O. 

 Sanderianuvi. Another plant shown as new, and named 

 Cattleya O ' Brieniana, is a variety of C. Loddigesii with the 

 petals slightly broader and less curved. Dendrobium Slatter- 

 ianum is a good variety of D. bigibbum, verv dark in color, 



spikes with 346 expanded flowers upon them. It would be 

 difficult to surpass this Masdevallia as a free flowering, easily 

 grown plant, but the specimen shown was a surprise even to 

 those who know the good qualities of the species. Mr. 

 Hodgson had grown this specimen from a tiny plant with two 

 leaves, which he purchased for a guinea fifteen years ago. 



Ccelia bella is a Mexican Orchid which is not common in 

 cultivation, but a plant of it shown by Mr. Malcolm Cook was 

 ornamental enough to attract attention. It bore eight spikes 

 of flowers, each spike with from four to six expanded 



Fig. 1. — Viburnum pauciflorum. — See page 4. 



the lower part of the lip being of a deep maroon ; the middle 

 lobe of this organ is also longer than in D. bigibbum. Some 

 persons who saw it were inclined to call it a varietv of D. 

 Phalcznopsis, and thought it might be a connecting fink be- 

 tween that species and D. bigibbum. Whatever its affinity, 

 D. Slatterianum is a pretty addition to the Australian Den- 

 drobiums. A'crides Savageanum is a small flowered addition 

 to the numerous, and, as a rule, handsome-flowered group ot 

 species represented by A. odoratum. 



Masdevallia Tovarensis was exhibited in superb condition, 

 the plant bearing 255 leaves, all perfectly healthy, and 162 



blooms, which were two inches long, tubular, the segments 

 spreading, recurved near the apex, and colored white with 

 crimson lips ; the lip is triangular and sulphur vellow in 

 color. Ccelia is a genus of some four or five species, three 

 of which are in cultivation at Kew, but only C. bella is hand- 

 some enough to rank with garden Orchids. It has been in 

 cultivation many years, and used to be known as Bifrenaria 

 bella. There is a figure of it in the Botanical Magazine, t 

 6628. 



Cypripediiuu Niobe, a hybrid whose parents are C. Fairrea- 

 num and C. Spicerianum, is one of the most charming of the 



