these cannot bear too much sun. We find the warmest end of the Cattleya house 
to suit them, and they should have a little live sphagnum moss about their roots. 
They like to be kept moist at the roots during their period of growth, and even 
when at rest they must not be allowed to get dry, for these small almost bulbless 
subjects require to have constant support. They must be kept free from insects; 
the white scale will sometimes attack them, and these little plants cannot endure 
the onslaught of that pest. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM VEXILLARIUM ALBUM (inet) and O. VEXILLARIUM MEASURESIANUM 
(Hort.).—We received during the spring of 1884 a white variety of O. vewillarium 
from M. Finet, of Argenteuil, France, under the name of album, which was quite 
distinct from anything we had previously seen; the lip was pure white, and the 
sepals and petals were also white, with the faintest roseate tinge towards the 
lower portions. Having our doubts as to its constancy, we awaited its flowering 
this season, when, we are pleased to say, it produced larger flowers of precisely the 
- same colour as previously. The plant was exhibited on the 12th June, 1884, in 
Paris, and was awarded a First Prize as a New Plant. This is a lovely variety, 
and we congratulate M. Finet upon obtaining such a beautiful novelty. In July, 
of this year, R. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, Streatham, also forwarded us a nice 
spike of a white Odontoglossum vemillarium, which had been exhibited at the Royal 
Horticultural Show in July, and was deservedly awarded a First Class Certificate ; 
this variety is exceedingly pretty, and differs from the variety above noted in its 
flowers being smaller and whiter, the backs of the sepals and petals are also” 
white, and, indeed, this is the purest white form we have yet seen.—B. S. W. 
Lissocuitus Kresstt purpurata.—This new plant was in July last flowering at 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regents Park, and is a very fine thing. It is a pity 
that the Lissochiles are not more generally grown, as they are most beautiful and 
interesting objects, and belong to the terrestrial group of Orchids, which has 
comparatively few representatives. The scape in this variety is about three and a 
half feet high, and has produced as many as twenty flowers, a few of which only 
open at one time. The individual flowers are two inches across; the sepals dark 
green at the back, and deep maroon-purple in. front; the petals ovate, bright yellow 
above, and paler cream, faintly veined with red beneath; and the lip dull orange- 
yellow, with the lateral lobes chocolate-purple, streaked with darker lines. The plant 
was introduced by Mr. E. A. Heath, from Southern Africa.—H. W. 
