are dull orange-yellow, margined with reddish purple ; lip white in front, the base 
being dull orange, dotted with purple. The inflorescence appears in the autumn months, 
and the flowers continue in full beauty for a very long time. This plant requires to be 
thoroughly established before it can be induced to flower, but when it becomes 
vigorous it blooms annually. This species thrives best when treated to basket or 
pot culture, and the plant should be re-potted just as the young growths begin to 
appear; care, however, must be shown in performing this operation, for the plant 
suffers greatly if its roots are injured to any extent. Should the plants not require 
re-potting, they will be much improved by having the old soil removed, and replaced 
with fresh and sweet material, and the best we have found for this plant is 
good peat fibre, from which all the fine soil has either been beaten or shaken. 
This must be used in such a condition that it may be readily broken up, and care 
must be taken not to use it when wet. Our usual practice in preparing composts 
for Orchid potting is to pull the turfs to pieces, and shake away the fine portion 
of the soil, then place it in a warm position in the potting shed, or similar place; 
this should be done some time before the compost is required, and thus some 
material is always ready for use and in proper order. The drainage for this plant 
must be maintained in a perfectly free and open condition, and the plant should be 
hung near the roof-glass to ensure a good amount of the sun’s influence, but avoid 
too close contact with the toof-glass in the winter months, as the cold penetrates 
to the plants very quickly, and causes the temperature to fall too rapidly. As 
might have been inferred by the elevation at which it grows in a wild state, we 
find the temperature of the cool end of the Cattleya house to suit it admirably. 
Ue ee 
DeatH oF ProrEssor REICcHENBacH.—It is with no ordinary feeling of regret 
that we have to record this event, which took place at Hamburgh on May 6th, 
m his 66th year, and his loss to the botanical world will not be easily replaced. 
Since 1863 he had been Professor and Director of the Botanical Gardens m 
Hamburgh ; a year previous to this our first acquaintance began, when he was 
at Leipsig, and at which time he had not come before the English people much 
im connection with Orchids, as our own great master and authority, Dr. Lindley, 
then held the Sway in this country. Although the two men often worked together, 
it was not until the death of Dr. Lindley that Reichenbach stepped into powel 
Since that time he has ably and most courteously devoted himself to the study 
- Decidacees oe eee ever Qhpted > ‘him: in vain on any subject connected 
with : this family of Plants. As yet we cannot estimate the great loss we have 
Sustained, for at the Present moment we have no one tu succeed him. There #8 
no one who, like him, had st 
the death of Dr. Lindley, 
and we can only add, Fuma semper viret. 
(Continued under plate 379.) 
