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be but pale forms of the type. The finest white form of this species was 
flowered by Mr. Whittaker, gardener to Lord Crewe, Crewe Hall, Cheshire,” 
and was named by Reichenbach. The plant figured, however, has a rosy 
stain on the front lobe of the lip, and as it came from the Duke of Marl- 
borough’s collection, at Blenheim, it evidently does not represent the 
original plant, but rather the variety aurorea, which was described by 
Reichenbach, in 1881, from flowers sent by Mr. W. Bull (Gard. Chron., 1881, 
xv., p. 688). The latter was briefly described as “‘ A lovely variety. Flowers 
snow-white, with a light rosy hue on the anterior part of the lip, and some 
light yellow in the throat.” The form here figured flowered in the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, during April, 1899, and was photographed by 
Mr. A. E. P. Griessen, who remarks respecting it:—‘‘Its flowers are pure 
white, as white as any Orchid may be expected to be, with only the disc 
yellow. Another specimen flowered during May in the Agri-Horticultural 
Gardens of Allipore. These are the only two specimens that I know of, so 
far.” These examples it would appear belong to the variety candida. 
We may supplement our remarks at page 223, as to the kind of treatment 
this species requires, by the following note sent to “Reichenbach by Mr. 
Prestoe, of Trinidad. Speaking of avisit made by the late Mr. J. Day, in 
1895, Mr. Prestoe remarked :—‘‘ Mr. Day missed a good thing when our 
Vanda teres was in flower soon after he left. I had over 250 spikes open at 
the same time. Some few years ago I placed a good tuft on an old stump of 
Bauhinia ungula. It was thus fully exposed there; it has always flowered 
most profusely. Before it has never given a spike. When it flowers it isall 
brown and shrivelled.”’ 
MAXILLARIA SCURRILIS. 
A VERY remarkable species of Maxillaria was exhibited at the R.H.S. 
meeting on July 17th last, by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., under the name 
of M. scurrilis, to which a First-class Certificate was given. It is obviously 
allied to M. longissima, Lindl., but is markedly different in having the 
sepals and petals blotched with dark, blackish brown. One species having 
this character has been described, namely, M. speciosa, Rchb. f. (Gard. 
Chron., 1876, vi., p. 197), of which the author remarks as follows :— 
S Mazxillarias are, as arule, not received in favour, though some are rather 
decorative. Thus, I prefer a beautifully flowering M. lateo-alba or 
venusta to many of the inferior Odontoglossa. The species just now sent 
from New Grenada by Messrs. Klaboch appears to be a rather recommend- 
able thing. The sepals and petals are narrow, acuminate, spreading, pallid 
(white and yellow ?), and covered with numerous blackish-purple spots, 5-6 
inches long. The lip is of same colour. The flowers are considerably 
