soil peat and chopped sphagnum moss. As with many of these small-growing 
Orchids, we consider it necessary to advise our readers to watch carefully for the 
first attacks of insects, and to at once set about their eradication, for if allowed 
to increase they will rapidly cause the leaves to become discoloured and fall away, 
and this, especially with the smaller kinds, is a matter of serious consideration. 
QGATTLEYA CITRINA AURANTIACAA—From Mr. Measures, of The Woodlands, 
Streatham, we have received a flower which we certainly should not have recognised 
without a name, and it shows, too, that this old species is about to break out 
into varieties of quite a novel appearance. In growth the plant resembles the 
typical form, but the flowers are quite distinct, and of average size. The sepals 
and petals are spreading, nearly equal, not so thick in texture as in those of the 
species, and of a soft lemon-yellow; the lip is large, side lobes and the basal part 
of a rich deep lemon-yellow, and the front part of the middle lobe is of a deep 
orange-yellow, several raised lines of the same hue traversing the surface quite back 
to the disc. It is very handsome as well as deliciously fragrant, and is a variety 
to be taken note of and to preserve—W H. 
