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suspended from the roof, whilst the larger growers are more easily 
accommodated in pots on the stages. Most Oncidiums enjoy the 
temperature of the Intermediate house; but such species as O. Papilio, 
Kramerianum, Lanceanum, guttatum, and Cavendishianum do best in the 
Warm house. 
ZYGOPETALUMS, as they pass out of bloom, may be repotted, should the 
compost be in adecomposed condition. The strong growing Z. Mackayi 
may have a compost of a substantial nature to root in. Fibrous loam, 
osmunda fibre, and sphagnum moss in equal proportions, cut up according 
to the size of the plants, and well mixed together, forms a suitable compost. 
GENERAL RemarKS.—As dirty plants cannot thrive, and owing to the 
recent shortage of labour and other difficulties, cleanliness has not been so 
strictly observed as formerly, every effort should be made, before the busy 
season is upon us, to eradicate all those parasites which infest and suck out 
the life blood of our cake ar 
EULOPHIA MEGISTOPHYLLA, - Rehb. £—This interesting Comoro Island 
Orchid has just: flowered with Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards 
Heath. The species was introduced by the late M. Louis Humblot, and 
described by Reichenbach in 1885 (Gard. Chron., 1885, i. p. 787), probably 
from dried materials, though a plant afterwards flowered at the Jardin des 
Plantes, Paris, when a figure appeared (Rev. Hort., 1887, p. 87, fig. 21). 
Reichenbach remarked that the species had probably the largest leaves in 
the whole affinity, though, as usual, he left us to guess what the dimensions 
may have been. Fortunately, however, there is a native leaf preserved at 
Kew, collected by M. Humblot himself, and this in the dried state measures 
18 inches long by 7 inches broad. This leaf constitutes the entire specimen, 
but Messrs. Charlesworth have kindly spared the inflorescence and a 
smaller leaf for preservation at Kew. The inflorescence, which appeared at 
Paris, had three side branches ; the present one has only a small side branch, 
bearing two flowers, while some three dozen others are borne by the main 
raceme, which is about teninches long. The leaf of Messrs. Charlesworth’s 
plant is considerably smaller than the wild one, which suggests that the 
plant is not yet fully developed. The origin of the present plant is not 
known, but the flowers are indistinguishable from those represented in the 
figure cited, so that the identity of the two may be assumed. The flowers 
are straw yellow, with four purple lines and a few streaks on the petals, and 
more numerous radiating ones on the side lobes of the lip, the front lobe of 
which is deeply bilobed, with a very short, recurved apex. The spur is 
green, very obtuse, and broader than long. The affinity of the species is 
with the West African E. Saundersiana, Rchb. f. and the Mascarene E. 
pulchra, Lind!.—R.A.R. 
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