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formed for several weeks a great centre of attraction. Some idea may be 
formed of the dimensions which this species attains under favourable 
circumstances by the records that a plant at Buitenzorg produced about 
fifty spikes, weighing in the aggregate nearly a hundredweight, and that 
another which was brought from Malacca to Singapore weighed, with the 
portion of the tree on which it grew, three-quarters of a ton. The Kew 
plant, though now considerably reduced in size, is quite healthy, and will 
doubtless bloom again in due course. In the tropics it is said to flower 
annually. 
Another giant is Lissochilus Mahonii, a native of Uganda, which 
flowered at Kew in 1905, and was figured at t. 8047 of the Botamical 
Magazine. It bears a general resemblance to L. giganteus, which has 
bloomed in several European collections, but differs in the colour of the 
flowers. The spike is about eight feet high, and bears some three dozen 
flowers, with large lilac-purple petals, and a green and purple lip, with 
yellow keels in the centre. These big Lissochili are not easy to cultivate, 
and the plant was subsequently lost. For the history of L. giganteus, see 
O.R., v. pp. 295-6. 
Eulophiella Peetersiana is a large and striking species, which occasion- 
ally blooms in the collection, its tall spikes of deep rose-purple flowers ‘and 
long recurving leaves giving it an imposing appearance, though like other 
giants it requires rather a lot of room to do it justice. It is a native of 
Madagascar, and its history and a figure are given at pp. 138-140 of our 
twentieth volume. 
Other giants include Stauropsis gigantea and S. Imthurnii, both of which 
have flowered during the present year, and have already been dealt with, the 
history of tha latter being given at p. 167. And we must not omit Sobralia 
Cattleya, which has long been grown here, though the hope of ever 
flowering it seems to have long ago been abandoned. The history seem> 
to be the same wherever the plant is grown, unless an exception may be 
made of the Burford plant, which is said to have once produced an imperfect 
spike. 
The Cattleyas and allies have for some weeks been making a great 
display, the hybrids of C. labiata, Dowiana, and Bowringiana being well to 
the front, with good examples of the parents for comparison. The hybrids 
of C. Bowringiana retain much of the vigour and floriferousness of this 
parent, and both C. Mantinii and C. Browniz have been very effective. 
Wendlandiana, the hybrid between C. Warscewiczii and Bowringiana ® * 
large plant which has produced several spikes of its bright purple for? 
Leliocattleya Tiresias, the hybrid between Lc. elegans and C. Bowringian, 
is another very strong plant that has bloomed freely, and makes 4 a 
effective specimen. It was also interesting to see plants of the very distif 
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