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slender, curved like a fish-hook, bright rosy brown, with the apex broader, 
and green with rosy brown dots. Female flowers with rather broader, 
fleshy segments, green, with ivory white apex to the ovate convex lip ; 
column shorter and stouter, with angular wings. It is interesting to note 
that the females “all bear an anther case with abortive pollinia, these 
being carefully sent as well as those of the males, the latter being normal 
in character. 
Reichenbach (Beitr. Orch. Centr. Amer., p. 24) enumerated four species 
of Cycnoches from Chiriqui: 1, C. ventricosum, Batem.; 2, C. Warsce- 
wiczii, Rchb. f.; 3, C. aureum, Lindl.; and 4, C. Diane, Rchb. f., but he 
suggested that C. Warscewiczii might possibly be a sex of C. ventricosum. 
‘We, on the other hand, think it is probably the female of C. aureum, which 
was also collected at Chiriqui by Warscewicz, and of which the female is 
otherwise unknown. Unless Warscewicz had found the two growing from 
the same plant he would scarcely have connected them, for practically 
nothing was then known of sexuality in the genus, and the production of 
another kind of flowers on any given plant was then regarded as a 
mysterious kind of sporting. C. ventricosum and C. aureum belong to 
different sections of the genus, and we have more than once tried to get in 
touch with the latter handsome plant, but hitherto without success. The 
attention now being given to Central American Orchids may yet result in 
its rediscovery, as has been the case with the other interesting species to 
which this note is devoted. 
OrcuHIDs AT KEw.—Among a number of rare and interestlng Orchids 
now flowering at Kew may be mentioned a fine specimen of the Javan Eria 
rhynchostyloides, producing as many as three dozen spikes and making 
quite an attractive show. Maxillaria fucata is bearing several striking buff 
yellow flowers with red shading and markings. Lycaste leucantha has 
light green sepals and petals and a white lip. Pleurothallis hamata is a 
very free-flowering species from Costa Rica, and Scaphosepalum punctatum 
a rare species of a small genus that was formerly included in Masdevallia. 
The Sobralias are blooming freely, and include examples of S. macrantha, © 
xantholeuca, Veitchii, Colmanii, and a pretty hybrid from S. macrantha 
alba crossed with S. Wavriniana, and having white sepals and petals and a 
yellow lip. There were also good examples of Vanda ccerulea, Lelia crispa, 
the natural hybrids Leliocattleya Schilleriana and delicata, Oncidioda 
Charlesworthii, and many showy members of the Cattleya group. Coelogy ne 
Veitchii is bearing a pendulous raceme of pure white flowers, and a plant 
of the graceful Angrecum Sanderianum bears two spikes. The quaint 
genus Stanhopea is well represented in the collection, those in bloom 
being S. oculata, Wardii and saccata, but others are over. 
