14 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
elongated, undulate, and acute, and the side lobes are enrolled and united 
into a ring, which clasps the short column. _It was chiefly on this account 
that it was described as a distinct genus, by Blume, under the name of 
Latourea spectabilis. The pollinia were also described as two only, and 
cohering, but examination shows four, and a similar coherence is found in 
other species of Dendrobium. In fact, distinct as it is, it is allied to 
D. macrophyllum and D. atroviolaceum. The colours are also remarkable, | 
being light yellow, veined and reticulated all over with purple-brown, which 
on the lip is of a considerably darker shade. In short, the flowers bear 
much resemblance to some huge spider. It is a very interesting addition 
to our collections, and. being a native of New Guinea and the Solomon 
Islands, will require the same treatment as D. atroviolaceum and 
D. Phalzenopsis. 
AN AMATEUR’S NOTES. 
THE information given in your November issue as to the sale of Orchids at 
“ The Firs,’ Warwick (vii., p. 346), was very acceptable, and I would take the 
liberty of suggesting that you include the results of the sales that take 
place regularly in London at the various well-known sale rooms. This 
information would not only be valuable to us provincials, but also to those 
gentlemen resident even in your neighbourhood. 
Last year I was visiting an enthusiastic amateur, who cultivates 
Odontoglossum crispums almost entirely, under considerable disadvantages, — 
his house being a lean-to facing the south. He hada dozen of O. Hallii 
in his collection for more than three years, and had only succeeded in 
blooming one plant. He offered them to me at his first cost, and I closed 
with him for the lot—there was also a plant of O. CErstedii crowded with 
bulbs—but not one of them had flowered. The plants looked well, but I 
knew that he had almost constantly to keep a heavy thick blind over his 
house, and even to board up the east end of it, in order to keep down the 
temperature, which might suit the crispums, but not the Hallii’s. My Cool 
House faces north, and we only shade the south end, and that during 
sunshine ; the lower ventilators are open, I may say, summer and winter. 
I had these plants only two months when the half of them began to 
throw up spikes, aud all are growing luxuriantly. 
I find a difficulty in growing Cattleya Dowiana aurea in my Warm 
House, and would be glad to have the benefit of the advice of some of your 
friends who grow this successfully. 
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W. G. M. 
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