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inches long, and the united sepals are about an inch broad at the base. 
The colour is bright red-purple on a pale yellow ground. The sepals and 
petals are margined with long plume-like appendages which flutter in the 
slightest breeze. It received a First-class Certificate, R.H.S., October 15th, 
1895, a high honour for a Cirrhopetalum. 
ONCIDIUM TETRAPETALUM.-—This pretty species is a native of the West 
Indies and adjacent countries on the American continent. It has been 
frequently sent to English gardens, but, like most of the Oncidiums with 
equitant foliage, has never been successfully cultivated. It appears to vary 
in size as well as in the colour of the flowers. A narrow-leaved variety 
found by Lobb in New Granda is mentioned by Lindley as being in Sir W. 
Hooker’s herbarium. In 1805 Willdenow described this plant as Oncidium 
tetrapetalum (Sp. Pl. iv. 112), which name is maintained at Kew. But 
Fawcett and Rendle in their Orchids of Jamaica, 1910, consider it identical 
with the plant described in 1753 by Linnzus as Epidendrum guttatum, and 
on that account they have formed the new combination Oncidium guttatum, 
thus maintaining the earliest specific name. A coloured drawing and dried 
flower of it have been received from R. Nelson Musgrove, Esq., Nassau, 
Bahamas, who states that his plant was found on the island of Abaco 
growing in the coppice, in rather a shady locality. It is now being 
cultivated on a small block, with some native wood and moss about the 
roots, and kept continually moist in a shady place. 
PHAL@Nopsis LINDENII.—This rare species was originally described in 
1895 by Mr. Loher (Journ. des Orch, vi. p. 103), who discovered it in the 
Philippines. The exact locality was not stated, but he remarked that no 
other Phalzenopsis grows in the place where it was found. The leaves are 
silvery-green and tessellated, like those of P. Schilleriana, but more pointed, 
while the flowers resemble those of P. rosea, hence it was at first thought 
to be a natural hybrid between them, and thus a form of P. Veitchiana- 
Subsequent consideration, however, disposed of this opinion, and led to its 
specific character being recognised. A fine example has recently flowered 
in the collection of A. C. Burrage, Esq., Boston, Mass., U.S.A., and from 
his able grower, Mr. Geo. I’Anson. we have received a photograph showing 
how distinct it is. The flowers are larger than those of P. rosea, the 
segments broader, while the front lobe of the lip is nearly orbicular and 
without any trace of the anchor-like appendages seen in P. Veitchiana. 
The flowers are whitish suffused with light rose, and with a few rose- 
coloured dots at the base of the sepals and petals. The front lobe of the 
lip is amethyst-rose at the apex and with five to seven radiating lines. The 
inflorescence is not branched. 
