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light rose, the broadly expanded labellum having a large purple-mauve 
area on the front. 
Odontioda Eulalia; from Mons. Ch. Vuylsteke, Belgium. A handsome 
hybrid carrying a spike of fifteen medium-sized flowers, symmetrically 
marked with reddish-purple. 
Odontioda Orange King; from Mons. Ch. Vuylsteke. A bright result, 
in which the spike bore eleven oramge-coloured flowers. 
Cymbidium Nelly var. Golden Glow; from Messrs. Sanders. A grand 
plant with three spikes and an aggregate of thirty-seven greenish-yellow 
flowers, the front lobe of the lip crimson-red. 
Odontioda Radiant, from Messrs. J. & A. McBean. A neatly formed 
flower, of which four were carried on the spike, the whole area being soft 
scarlet colour. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
To Mr. J. Collier, orchid grower to Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., for a 
superb plant of Dendrobium acuminatum, with four spikes and a total of 
fifty-five flowers. 
TRICHOPILIAS.—These plants are best grown in pans or in teak baskets 
ou account of the facility with which they can be suspended near the glass, 
and where their somewhat pendulous flower spikes show to advantage. The 
genus was founded by Lindley on the Mexican species T. tortilis, the curious 
appendage at the apex of the column suggesting the generic name, which is 
derived from the Greek worJs for a hair and a cap. 
MAXILLARIA VENUSTA.—This charming species was originally discovered 
by Linden in 1842 on the Cordillera of Venezuela in the province of Merida, 
but not introduced till 1851, when it was re-discovered by Schlim on the 
eastern Cordillera of Colombia, near Ocana, and sent by him to Linden’s 
establishment at Brussels, where it flowered for the first time in Europe in 
1854. M. venusta is easily recognised by its long, acuminate, milk-white 
sepals and petals. 
BIFRENARIA INODORA.—The earliest account we have of this plant is a 
that it was imported from Rio de Janeiro in 1839, and added to Sir Charles 
Lemon’s collection at Carclew, where it flowered in 1843. It was subse- 
quently gathered by the Belgian collector, Libon, in Minas Geraes. The 
pseudobulbs, leaves, atid: inflorescence are similar to those of Bifrenaria 
Harrisoniz. Flowers three inches in diameter; sepals apple-green ; petals 
much smaller but brighter in colour; lip white, yellow or dull rose colour, 
three-lobed, the median lobe hairy, reflexed and crisped at the margin. 
