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‘Lelia Perrinii, and Leeliocattleya Decia, its hybrid with C. Dowiana. 
One might enumerate quite a long list of flowering plants of this decorative 
group. 
The autumn-blooming Pleiones are again making a fine display, 
particularly P. maculata and P. lagenania, but there also several pans of P, 
Wallichiana and preecox, while the plant of P. pracox alba—the only one 
that we know of—has again produced two of its chaste white flowers. Near 
by, the Madagascar Cynorchis purpurascens is flowering well, and there are 
plants of Catasetum maculatum, the dark purple Liparis macrantha, and the 
curious Oberonia cylindrica and O. myriantha, with equitant leaves and 
dense spikes of minute buff-yellow flowers. A little group of Epidendrum 
vitellinum supplies a bright patch of colour. 
The autumn blooming Cypripediums are now making an attractive 
display, and include the distinct C. Fairrieanum and several of its hybrids, 
the bright yellow C. villosum aureum, C. venustum, several forms of C. 
insigne, and numerous hybrids derived from these and other species. One 
particularly beautiful yellow is seen in C. Actzeus var. The Queen, a decided 
improvement in colour on C. insigne Sander, of which a good example 
bearing several flowers stands beside it. Two good plants of C. triumphans 
are also noteworthy. In this house is a fine group of Doritis pulcherrima, 
which lasts long in perfection, also a plant of the rare Arachnanthe Clarkei 
with three flowers. 
The Brazilian Miltonias have made a good display, plants of M. candida, 
Clowesii, and Regnellii having bloomed well, with examples of the natural 
hybrids that are in the collection. There are also a few Masdevallias and 
allies, with species and hybrids of the Odontoglossum group, but this is a 
rather quiet season in the Cool house. 
|’ has long been known that the Chinese Phaius grandifolius is common 
in Jamaica as a naturalised plant, and now we have evidence of its 
occurrence in Panama. Mr. C. W. Powell, Balboa, Canal Zone, sends 
Photographs and dried flowers of an Orchid, which he thinks must be a 
Phaius, and which he obtained under the following circumstances. It was 
purchased some two years ago from a local greenhouse, the proprietors of 
Which keep up a supply of ‘lilies’ and ferns by sending their coloured 
Workers into the jungle and hillsides to collect them. Mr. Powell 
occasionally visits the place in search of novelties, and on seeing this plant, 
which was called a lily, he purchased it, thinking from the general 
appearance it must be an Orchid. All that was known about it was that it 
S| PHAIUS GRANDIFOLIUS IN PANAMA. 
