74 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MARCH, 1922- 
pretty D. Finlayanum, a native of Moulmein, a large mass of D. 
Loddigessii, growing on a raft, and several. varieties of D. nobile, 
including the richly coloured nobilius, the pure-white virginale, and 
Burfordense, the latter having blotches of colour on the two lower sepals. 
Another section of the Dendrobium genus is represented by the tall 
growing D. Dalhousieanum, the musk-scented D. moschatum, and the 
Westonbirt variety of the Burmese D. fimbriatum, bearing pendulous. 
racemes of rich orange-yellow flowers. The Dendrobium hybrids total 
several hundred plants, consequently mention can only be made of the 
following :—Ainsworthii, Chessingtonense, Thwaitesiz, Juno, Lady Colman, 
Luna, Clio, the Gatton Park variety of Wiganianum, and melanodiscus 
pallens, from the late Mr. Chamberlain’s collection at Birmingham. In 
another house, and suspended in pans from the roof, are fine plants of D. 
Parishii, the pretty D. Dearei, D. thrysiflorum, and D. Pierardii, as well as 
several examples of D. suavissimum, with racemes of sweetly-scented 
flowers of golden-yellow colour. 
Pleiones are cultivated in over twenty pans, each well filled with severab 
plants, among them are the North Indian P. humilis and P. maculata, as 
well as P. lagenaria from Khasia, but the best constitution is possessed by 
the more recently discovered P. yunnanensis. A plant rarely seen is the 
Mexican Arpophyllum giganteum, now producing a flower spike in this- 
collection. Another rarity is the Brazilian Leptotes bicolor, sometimes 
referred to under the generic name Tetramica, and there are also more than 
half-a-dozen plants of Neobenthamia gracilis, with grass-like foliage. 
During the past winter more than one house has been gay with numerous: 
flowers of the best Cypripedium species and hybrids. Last Christmas there 
were many fine varieties of the popular C. insigne, including the giant form 
she a aati and the Primrose-yellow one called Sandere.. 
rs at ave flowered well during the past season are C. Rothschild- 
fanum, with its long petals sustained in horizontal style the albino C. 
callosum Sanderz, and selected varieties of C. PaaS Many 
Glen Ce aa Athan, as wall a 
as representative of this Se: sag eg a oad 
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in the near future. A plant at on we oe iisiuags oe — bee 
Epidendrum aurantiacum and Sas Ban Sameera ss — 
oa re represented as such, belongs in reality 
© 1mmense specimen plants of Cattleya Bowring- 
the attention of visitors, while the botanist will 
illa planifolia, also of the leafless V. Humblotii, 
g blackish warts, giving it the appearance of 
with green stems bearin 
