60 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1022. 
‘spacious bank of Cattleya Mossiz Raphel alba contained Humercus 
specimens bearing three and four flowers on a spike, and, remarkable as it 
may appear, some dozen plants had as many. as five flowers on a single 
spike. A year or sco back two was the usual number, but with good 
cultivation we have an example of what this favourite hybrid is capable of 
producing. A fitting companion is Lc. Schroderz, the purity of the petals 
intensifying the brilliant purple lip. Very chaste too are several examples 
of Be. Cliftonii albens. Mention must be made of Lc. Geo. Woodhams X 
. Adula, with intense purple petals and deep crimson lip, a very striking 
flower. Lc. Colmaniana x C. aurea, with pure white petals and a purple 
blotch at the apex of each, is a very showy thing. In another house similar 
conditions prevail, flowers and sheaths, the hidden buds to be revealed in 
due time. 
A large number of Sophronitis crosses are in excellent health. oC, 
Atalanta is represented by a very dark variety. Lc. Sunray, with rich 
chrome-yellow petals is attractive, as also are some very robust plants of the 
Dove Orchid—Peristeria elata. Other Cattleya houses contain hundreds of 
Seedlings in all stages, some showing their first sheath. What a fascinating 
Prospect is here ; one wonders what will ensue. 
Along nearly the whole length of the corridor are suspended many varieties 
-of Dendrobiums, where they have been resting for a considerable time, and are 
slowly but surely awakening from their slumbers, and getting ready to make 
—P0< 
PopocHiLus LONGICALCARATUS, Rolfe,—A native of Borneo and the 
Philippines, which was introduced to cultivation by Messrs. Linden, 
L’Horticultuce Internationale, Brussels. It jis allied to P. unciferus, 
Hook, f., and has been confused with it, but has a far longer chin. The 
flowers are semi-pellucid white, the segments being more or less tipped with 
TOsy purple. 
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ORNITHOCEPHALUS MULTIFLORUS.—A Brazilian species imported by M. 
Binot, which flowered at Kew in June, 1898. It is noted as a very graceful 
and floriferous species, having the flowers white, with the exception of the 
incurved apex of the crest, which is bright green. In habit it is remarkably 
distinct, differing from all others except O. grandiflorus, Lindl., in having 
lat, not uniform leaves, 
