Marcu, 1922.] THE ORCHID. REVIEW. 7x 
being spotted like a snake, and of V. Wightiana, now showing signs of 
flowering. 
The span-roofed Odontoglossum house is the latest addition to the range 
of glass. It contains a varied assortment of selected crispums, both white 
and blotched varieties, many excellent hybrids, including several of Harry- 
anum parentage, and numerous smaller plants as yet unflowered. Several. 
vigorous examples of Ada aurantiaca, with sprays of orange-red flowers,. 
and a representative selection of Odontiodas, as well as hybrids of Odonto- 
glossum Edwardii, are also cultivated with much success. Suspended from 
the roof are numerous pans containing healthy plants of Odontoglossum 
Rossi majus and Sophronitis grandiflora. Although many Masdevallias: 
have little more than a botanical interest, there is in this house a collection 
of the more showy species, including good forms of Harryana, the white 
tovarensis, the pretty Schrédere, which succeeds admirably, Veitchii grandi- 
flora, Houtteana, and more than one good variety of Chimera with its 
curious flowers. In addition to some Masdevallia hybrids, there is a fine 
plant of Restrepia antennifera. 
Passing through the above house into another of similar construction 
one comes across a wonderful batch of the South African Disa grandiflora. 
They are cultivated in a bed of fibre, leaf-mould and sphagnum moss, and if 
in its native home this beautiful Orchid has earned the name of The Pride 
of Table Mountain it certainly is entitled to be also called The Pride of 
Borde Hill, for never have finer or healthier plants been seen. There is 
also a fine batch of the elegant Disa Blackii (grandiflora x Luna), and four 
pans containing an excellent crop of newly-raised seedlings between 
grandiflora and Blackii. 
At one time the Orchids were cultivated by the head gardener, Mr; 5. 
R. Conn, but as the collection is ever on the increase they are now under 
the special care of Mr. H. J. Gillett, who commenced his duties at Borde 
Hill six years ago, having previously been twelve years with Messrs. Wm. 
Bull. & Sons, at Chelsea. Mr. Gillett’s long experience enables him to 
maintain this extensive and varied collection in excellent order, and doubt- 
less he will soon bring to perfection many of the seedling Orchids that have 
already been raised. | 
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DICHEA CILIOLATA.This Costa Rican species was sent to Kew by Mr. 
C. H. Lankester, and flowered in the collection in July, 1915. It is allied 
to D. hystricina, Rchb. f., but has much broader and shorter leaves. The 
flowers are pale buff, with red-purple spots and bars, the lip white with 
purple spots and a purple suffusion on the side lobes, and the column pale 
buff, margined with dull purple, and the rostellum violet.—R. A. ROLFE, 
Kew Bulletin, 1917, p. 86. 
