with brown, and the lip rich orange-yellow, with a conspicuous blotch of deep 
sepia-brown on the anterior part. It blooms in March and April, and continues in 
flower for several weeks. 
This Oncidiwm is best grown in a small basket or pan, with good drainage 
and rough fibrous peat, mixed with small lumps of charcoal, placed on live sphacnum 
moss, as these small-growing Oncids enjoy sending their roots among the moist 
material when it is kept well open so that the roots can freely get through it, 
and be well aérated. The water given must also be allowed to pass away without 
becoming stagnant, which would be injurious to the plants. Good sweet rough 
open material is most important in providing a compost for these and other plants 
that are found growing on trees in moist places in their native country, where their 
roots are at liberty... 
All these small Oncids are best placed in the Cattleya house suspended near 
the light, as their small growths will then have a better chance of making stronger 
pseudobulbs, and this will induce them not only to send forth their flower spikes 
more freely, but to develop them more vigorously. 
SaccoLabium Brumer Russevranum.—There is now flowering in the collection 
of R. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, Streatham, a fine example of this most rare 
and beautiful Saccolabe. The plant has several strong growths, and is producing 
two spikes of flowers which are each two feet in length, the individual flowers 
being very large, and of good substance, and the markings very distinct and 
beautiful. This is, without exception, the finest variety of S. Blumei we have 
ever seen, and is even superior, as regards length of spike, to the variety flowered 
by the late J. Russel, Esq., of Falkirk, many years ago.— B. 8. W. 
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