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the size of the plants exhibited speaks well as to the ease and facility with 
which Cymbidiums can be grown and increased. 
Cymbidium insigne was first described by the late Mr. Rolfe in the 
Gardeners’. Chronicle. of June, 1904, from a coloured drawing and a dried 
specimen sent to Kew in 1gor. It was said to be allied to C. Lowianum 
and C. longifolium. In reality, insigne is the outstanding species in the 
genus. Its globose pséudobulbs, narrow glaucous foliage and the erect 
flower-spikes, are characters combined in no other species. 
The plant was first shown by Messrs. Sanders in February, 1905, 
and, under the name of C. Sanderi, received a F.C.C. The Gardeners’ 
Chronicle described it as ‘‘ a grand new species of totally distinct character.” 
Messrs. Sanders had received an importation through their collector 
Micholitz, and ‘distributed the plants under the name of Sanderi. 
The original name insigne, of course, takes precedence, but though 
insigne is a good indicative name, it is probable that the plant will always 
be more or less remembered and known under its synonym, rightly so 
perhaps, as with Cypripediums insigne Sandere, callosum Sander, and 
Curtisii Sanderz, it commemorates the memory of the late Mr. F. Sander, 
and gives further proof of the wonderful energy and foresight which 
actuated him in Orchid collecting. 
In addition to the F.C.C. given to the original plant shown, three other 
F.C.C.’s awarded to varieties and three A.M.’s by the R.H. Society is proof 
of the wonderful variation and beauty of this species. The pure white 
variety is included in the forms recognised by an Award of Merit. In 
addition many varieties are known and valued on the Continent, but to the 
present the culminating form is the variety Bieri. EC, 
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BULBOPHYLLUM LIMBATUM.—A small Orchid that had been grown in 
Messrs. Loddiges nursery at Hackney was described in 1840 by Lindley 
(Bot. Reg., xxvi., misc., 74) as Bulbophyllum limbatum. He recorded its 
origin as Singapore, and also described other species from that place with 
the further record that they were “received from Mr. Cuming.” The 
Gardener's Bulletin (vol. ii., No. 12), Straits Settlements, states that ‘‘ these 
others are well-known to grow wild in Singapore; but B. limbatum had not 
been seen again until last year. Hugh Cuming was a great collector, who 
visited our coasts upon his way to and from the Philippine Islands in 1835 
and 1839. Although it is not expressly stated in the Botanical Register, it 
is almost certain that it was he who took the Bulbophyllum to Britain ; 
and asthe other Orchids are all species found locally in Singapore, the 
Probability is that the Singapore forests, and not the Singapore port, 
furnished it.’ The new locality at which it has been obtained is Kotah 
Tinggi, in Jahore. 
