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spots. Mr. Walker remarks that the other seedlings were smaller and nearly 
white. The influence of C. Tracyanum is not apparent, and confirmation 
of the record seems desirable. : 
EPIDENDRUM LATERALE, Rolfe.—This curious little Epidendrum has 
again been introduced to cultivation, a plant having just flowered at Kew 
among a lot of plants collected in Costa Rica, and brought home by Mr. C. H. 
Lankester. We have known the species for about ten years, and when 
Messrs. Sander, in December, 1g1o, sent a specimen, obtained from the 
same country, we were much struck with the lateral inflorescence, and at 
first wondered whether the character could be normal. The flowering of a _ 
plant in the collection of the late J. J. Neale, Esq., at Penarth, settled this 
doubt, and we named the plant Epidendrum laterale. On its flowering again, 
in August, 1912, it was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, and was recorded as a curious little plant, bearing two spikes of 
green flowers from rudimentary growths, as in E. Stamfordianum (O. R., 
Igi2, p. 280). Thecharacter is evidently constant, for it is identical in Mr. 
Lankester’s plant, which he imforms us occurs at Cachi, at about 3,500 ft. 
elevation, but is rare there. He has known it for seven or eight years. .It 
bears tufts of cylindrical pseudobulbs, two to three inches long, with a single 
oblong leaf, some three inches long by about one broad. The slender 
spikes are about half as long as the pseudobulbs, and are borne on a small 
lateral growth, as in Cattleya Walkeriana, which afterwards develops into 
a pesudobulb. The spikes are protected by one or two short basal sheaths, 
and the flowers are light green, and over an inch across, the lip being 
uppermost, three-lobed, and its stalk completely confluent with the column- 
The lateral sepals are slightly concave, and broader than the odd one, 
while the petals are narrowly linear-lanceolate. It is a very distinct and 
interesting little plant. R. A. RoLre. 
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J.S —Cattleya Rex is said to be a native of the Upper Amazon, on the eastern slopes 
of the Andes of Peru, but we do rot know the conaitions under which it grows. It has 
. me extremely rare in gardens, and we fear has not a very stroug constitution. 
E.W.T.—The occurrence of natural hybrids among the Brazilian Oncidiums of the 
Forbesii group shows that some ot the Species grow intermixed, but we find surprisingly 
little definite information upon the subject. 
Amateur.—The Masdevallias of the Chimzra group should be moved to the 
Intermediate house for the winter, as they are very impatient of a low temperature. 
J.T—A light-coloured form of Miltonia Regnellii, a Brazilian species. 
